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Rajen Gohain served as BJP MP from Nagaon for four terms
He resigned due to disagreement over Nagaon seat delimitation
Gohain protested unsuccessfully to party leadership including Amit Shah
In a major political development in Assam, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and four-time Member of Parliament (MP) from Nagaon, Rajen Gohain, has officially resigned from the party, expressing strong discontent over its present leadership and ideological drift.
Gohain, who served as the Minister of State for Railways in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first cabinet in 2016 and previously as the BJP state president, tendered his resignation at the party’s state headquarters — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan.
Addressing the media on Thursday, October 9, Gohain voiced deep fru