Senior BJP leader and Tezpur Lok Sabha MP in Assam Ram Prasad Sarmah has resigned from the primary membership of the party.

In a Facebook post, Sarmah wrote that he felt insulted when his name did not find a place in the shortlisted panel of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.

Mr. Sarmah is also the President of the Assam Gorkha Sammelan. The BJP is yet to declare the party’s candidate from the Tezpur Lok Sabha constituency.