Guwahati, March 19 Following Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi's decision to join the BJP, his son Prateek announced that he would not contest the upcoming assembly elections from Margherita on a Congress ticket.
In a letter to Congress president and chairman of the Central Election Committee, Mallikarjun Kharge, on Wednesday, Prateek stated that he would continue to remain a party member.
Following his father's decision to join another party, it would not be appropriate for him to continue as a Congress candidate from Margherita, Prateek said in the letter, which was shared with reporters on Thursday.
"With utmost respect and a deep sense of responsibility towards the party, I wish to convey my decision to withdraw my candidacy from the Margherita Assembly Constituency," he said.
Prateek asserted that he will continue to work for the party in whatever capacity the leadership deems appropriate.
His father, a Congressman for over five decades, had resigned from the grand old party on Tuesday and joined the BJP the next day.