India, Jan. 28 -- Several senior Congress leaders from Assam and the state's biggest student body joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the coming Lok Sabha polls at an event held at the party's headquarters in Guwahati on Sunday.

Those who joined the BJP include former Congress minister Bismita Gogoi, former president of the Assam unit of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) Angkita Dutta, former president and vice president of the All Assam Students Union (AASU) Dipanka Kumar Nath and Prakash Das, respectively, and former deputy speaker of the state assembly Dilip Paul.

While Bismita is the daughter-in-law of former Congress leader Jiba Kanta Gogoi and a former MLA from Khumtai, Dutta is the daughter of former Congress minister...