: In a major political development ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, four-time Member of Parliament and former Union Minister Rajen Gohain has resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ending his 34-year association with the saffron party.

The 74-year-old veteran, a prominent face of the BJP in Assam and a long-time associate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), submitted his resignation on Thursday along with 18 others. Gohain, who represented the Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency from 1999 to 2019 and served as Minister of State for Railways in 2016, accused the party of betraying its core ideological and regional commitments.

Gohain, who represented the Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency from 1999 to 2019 and served as Minister of State for Railways in 2016, accused the party

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