GUWAHATI, March 1: A Guwahati-based physician who has been at the centre of a massive controversy ever since an audio of a telephonic conversation between him and his father became viral has finally broken his silence, saying rather than him ignoring his father’s last wish of meeting his son and his family members, it was his father who had turned him and his elder sister (the father’s daughter) and their mother — the man’s legally-married wife — out of their home in 2006.
Pratap Chandra Bordoloi of Jorhat had called his son Dr Analjyoti Bordoloi, a Guwahati-based physician, over phone in which the former was heard expressing his desire to meet him and his family members. Bordoloi said he was critically unwell and wished to meet them.
The senior Bordoloi, who ironically breathed his last on Thursday, did not get the response a father seeking to meet his son should have had.
Netizens were quick to jump the gun, as they blamed the son for not fulfilling his late father’s “dying wish”.
The telephone call was reportedly made sometime in November last year.
However after the audio of their conversation became viral today, Dr Analjyoti Bordoloi, when he was asked about his reaction to the entire development, gave an entirely opposite version saying the question about him snubbing his father’s wish actually did not arise since there was no relation between him and his father ever since Pratap Bordoloi drove them out of his house in 2006.
“We have had no relation with my father since 2006 when he drove me, my elder sister — who is also a doctor — and our mother from our house in Guwahati,” Dr Analjyoti Bordoloi said, adding that their mother, a retired school teacher, was also a victim of domestic violence at the hands of their father.
“It’s a long story and now that our father is no longer in this world it is better not to make everything public,” he further said.
“Our mother stays with us. We have moved on in our lives. Despite the treatment our father inflicted on us we are performing all rituals that one needs to follow when one’s father dies. Even my mother who is suffering from old-age ailments is trying to follow the rituals,” he added.
