Several KMSS leader joins BJP

A total of 26 Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) members joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday in its headquarters at Hengerabari in Guwahati. BJP Assam Pradesh president Ranjeet Kumar Dass, Jorhat MP Topon Kumar Gogoi, top BJP leaders Bijan Mahajan and Swapnaneel Baruah welcomed the members into the party.The former KMSS members include several top functionaries of the organization. 

It may be mentioned that the protests against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) had brought the artistes in Assam together but the upcoming elections made them fall apart. As the state braces for the polls due early next year, a large number of popular singers, musicians, and film personalities joined the ruling BJP and Congress on Tuesday in their quest for a political future. Most of them were at the forefront of the anti-CAA protests.

Singers Babu Baruah, Ajoy Phukan, and 27 fellow artistes joined the Congress. Among the scores of artistes who joined the BJP include flutist Deepak Sarma, singer Simata Shekhar, and actor Pranjana Dutta.

It needs mention that the KMSS recently had too announced that it will float a regional political party soon. KMSS president Vasco D Saikai said that the new party would be launched by October this year and it will contest the assembly elections to be held next year with peasant leader as its chief ministerial candidate.

Readers like you make Inside Northeast’s work possible

To support our brand of fearless and investigative journalism, support us HERE.

Download:                                                                       

The Inside Northeast app HERE for News, Views, and Reviews from Northeast India.

Do keep following us for news on-the-go. We deliver the Northeast.