Assam MLA Bharat Narah Quits Congress After Wife Fails To Get Poll Ticket

Bharat Chandra Narah, the MLA of Naoboicha in Assam's Lakhimpur district, resigned from the Congress on Monday after his wife failed to get a ticket from the party for the Lok Sabha elections.

The Congress announced Uday Shankar Hazarika as its candidate for the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha seat. Narah was hopeful that his party would nominate his wife Ranee Narah, a former Union Minister, for the seat.

"I do hereby resign from the Indian National Congress with immediate effect," the MLA said in his one-line resignation letter to party president Mallikarjun Kharge.