Guwahati, Mar 2 (PTI) Former AICC secretary Rana Goswami, who had joined the ruling BJP in Assam two days back, was appointed as a state vice-president of the party on Saturday.

State BJP president Bhabesh Kalita appointed the ex-Congress MLA to the position in the saffron party.

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"Rana Goswami has been appointed as the state vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam," the one-line organisational appointment letter signed by Kalita said.

Goswami, who was the working president of the Congress, had resigned from the grand old party and joined the BJP on Thursday.

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He had maintained that the Congress is facing a 'leadership deficit' and rued that people like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Jyotiraditya Scindia, with whom he had worked closely, had to leave the grand old party.

He was a close associate of former CM Tarun Gogoi, and was elected to the assembly in 2006 and 2011 from Jorhat.

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