Prodyut Bora, the BJP's national executive member, tells you why he's quitting the party

The BJP's Assam unit, which had recently got unprecedented good results in the local body polls in the state, got a rude jolt when news came that national executive member Prodyut Bora has resigned from the party.

Here is what Bora wrote on his Facebook page.

Dear Friends

My departure from the BJP is not a knee-jerk reaction to any specific event, but a gradual disillusionment--loss of faith--with the general drift of the Party at both the national and state levels. Therefore it was very difficult for me to compose a resignation letter and cite specific causes. What I have tried to do instead is consolidate my thoughts around 5 specific themes:

1) Assam features fairly low on the priority of the national leadership.

2) Subversion of the democratic tradition by the Modi-Shah duo.

3) Political Corruption in Assam BJP.

4) The BJP's dalliances with the most corrupt Himanta Biswa Sarma.

5) State president Siddhartha Bhattacharya's actions and utterances.

I am still a great advocate of change from within. For many years I hoped against hope (and experience) that change would take place in Assam BJP. And that it would emerge as the only real alternative to the misrule of the Congress. Today I am not so sure anymore.

Did I give up too early? Was 10 years in BJP too short a time? Only the future would tell. But at this point of time, all that I seek is your empathy and understanding: that I tried very hard ...but failed.

I want to keep alive my idealism in the goodness of people, and hope of better days to come. Politics has an immense capacity to corrode that human spirit and turn one into a cynic. I have decided to depart from the BJP before my spirit gets damaged a bit too much. I hope I would be able to continue to serve Mother Assam 'Axomi Aai' in whatever role/capacity that destiny has for me.

At this moment, I offer myself to that Higher Being. Let Him show the way.