Overview
- Pradyut Bordoloi has written to AICC in-charge Jitendra Singh warning he may resign if Lahorighat MLA Asif Mohammad Nazar is renominated for the 2026 Assembly polls.
- Bordoloi has traveled to New Delhi to press his case after saying his concerns were set aside during internal candidate-screening deliberations.
- He alleges a chargesheeted accused in an April 2025 attack on him, Emdadul Islam, is closely associated with Nazar and was publicly welcomed after release.
- Bordoloi says photographs show Islam being felicitated at Gaurav Gogoi’s residence on January 11, 2026, and seated behind Gogoi alongside Nazar at a Morigaon event the next day.
- He claims Central Election Committee member Imran Masood called his allegations 'false and fabricated' on March 13, and notes neither Gogoi nor Nazar has issued an official rebuttal.