India, March 19 -- Prateek Bordoloi, the Congress's candidate from Margherita for next month's Assam assembly polls, opted out of the contest even as he expressed faith in the party's ideals, and said he will continue to work for it. The move came hours after his father, Pradyut Bordoloi, defected to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Prateek Bordoloi cited changed circumstances following his father's defection and said he decided to quit as a candidate. He expressed his desire to continue working for the Congress. "In the present circumstances, following my father's decision to join another political party, I feel it would not be appropriate for me to continue as a candidate," he wrote in a letter to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kha...