India, March 18 -- Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), claiming he had faced humiliation within the party after supporting Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, amid a series of high-profile defections ahead of the Assam Assembly elections.

Bordoloi, a two-time MP from Assam's Nagaon constituency, formally joined the BJP in New Delhi in the presence of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state BJP president Dilip Saikia, a day after resigning from the Congress.

Speaking to reporters, Bordoloi said he had been feeling "suffocated and humiliated" within the party for the past two years, adding that his troubles began after he supported Shashi Tharoor within the ...