Good riddance of rubbish: AICC Assam in-charge Jitendra Singh on Himanta Biswa Sarma’s exit from Congress

Ever since Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, a former Congressman, left the grand old party in 2015, he has inflicted multiple damages to his former party. He not only joined the BJP but also emerged as the chief architect of the saffron party’s expansion in the northeast. In Manipur in 2017, and in Meghalaya in 2018, the Congress, despite becoming the single largest party, failed to form the government because of Sarma’s backroom manoeuvring. After 2021, when he became the CM of Assam, two sitting Congress MLAs joined the BJP, and several others are reportedly on the verge of switching sides. In the recently held presidential election, nearly a dozen Congress MLAs, out of a total of 27, reportedly voted for the NDA candidate. Amid speculation that the Congress would conduct a lie detector test to find out who had cross-voted for the NDA candidate, AICC in charge of Assam and former Union Minister Jitendra Singh spoke exclusively to India Today NE Deputy Editor Afrida Hussain on why the Congress had failed in keeping its house in order in Assam. Watch this video interview here: