00:00Some breaking news that's just coming in.
00:02Congress manages to pacify Bhupen Bora.
00:06Ex-Assam Congress chief takes back his resignation.
00:09Hours after resigning, Bhupen Bora's U-turn
00:13as Kaurav Gagoi meets Bora at his house and pacifies him.
00:17Bhupen Bora says from rebel to loyalist in four hours.
00:27This is a...
00:30The Congress in Assam scrambling to make sure that its people stay together.
00:36Bhupen Bora has now taken back his resignation
00:41four hours after he had given his resignation as Congress chief.
00:48Remember, this had been a big jolt for the Congress
00:54as the former chief of the Congress party in the state.
00:59Congress president had resigned.
01:01He had in fact cited that he was ignored by party leadership
01:05and he was not being given his due by the state unit.
01:09And this would have been a very, very big setback for the Congress
01:13immediately ahead of the Assam assembly elections
01:17which are due in April this year.
01:20Now after talks...
01:25Now after talks, he has now taken it back.
01:29Let's listen into what Bora and Gaurav Gagoi are saying to the cameras.
01:48The general DNIT.
01:51If you have the new Congressbank to send it to the Congress of the Congress,
01:54you will see the issues that you're going to send.
01:57Congress or Neta, this is the DNA of our economy, our economy, and our economy, and our economy, and the
02:06Congress or the ideology that we have created,
02:11this is the DNA.
02:15I am happy that we are not sure what we are doing.
02:25We are doing a lot of work.
02:30We are doing a lot of work in the country.
02:36We are doing a lot of work.
02:39We are doing a lot of work in the country.
02:42that we have worked with the government for a long time.
02:48Since the government is still working with our government,
02:57we have to have to work with them.
02:59That means we have to have to work with them.
03:22Speaking to the media, saying that Dupain Bora has taken back his resignation just hours
03:28after he had submitted it to Congress Chief Malik Arjun Kharge.
03:33As, remember, as Dupain Bora's resignation started doing the rounds, there were indications
03:41that the BJP may be sending out feelers to the Congress stalwart.
03:46In fact, Himanta Biswasarma, the Assam Chief Minister, had made a statement that he may be reaching out.
03:55Nandata Bora, our reporter, is joining us on the phone line on this story.
03:59Nandata, sudden take back by Bupain Bora, scrambling in the Assam Congress and with the elections coming in,
04:08how does this affect the Congress party in Assam?
04:14Bupain Bora being a senior leader of Congress, he has been in the Congress for the past 32 years.
04:22So his resignation came as a surprise today morning.
04:25At 8 a.m., then he himself announced that he is resigning and he has sent a resignation letter to
04:31the head, to the party's high command.
04:35And then, now our press conference has been held, where Bhavar Vikander Singh has mentioned that the party is with
04:43Bupain Bora,
04:45and Bupain Bora will remain with the party because it is in his DNA.
04:52Congress is in his DNA and he will remain with the party whatsoever.
04:57Bupain Bora, he himself has not declared that he will take back his resignation.
05:02He has asked for some time to rethink about his decision, although the party's high command and also senior leaders,
05:09including Gaurav Gogol, have also said that, yes, Bupain Bora will stay with the party.
05:17All right, thank you very much for that, Nandata.
05:20Thank you very much.
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