Pradyut Bordoloi

Pradyut Bordoloi
Member of parliament Nowgong
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 May 2019
Preceded by	Rajen Gohain
Constituency	Nowgong
Personal details
Born	(1958-03-28)28 March 1958 Margherita, Assam
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Indian National Congress
Children	Two Sons
Alma mater	Cotton College, Guwahati Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Occupation	Politician
Website	www.pradyutbordoloi.com

Pradyut Bordoloi is an Indian Politician from the state of Assam, currently serving as a Member of Parliament for Nowgong constituency. Indian National Congress candidate and former Minister of State Pradyut Bordoloi, breached the BJP bastion of Nowgong, by defeating party MLA Rupak Sharma by 16,752 votes in the Lok Sabha Elections held in 2019.^[1]

He was a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from Indian National Congress. He became a minister in the Tarun Gogoi led government. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly from Margherita He was also spokesperson of the state government in Tarun Gogoi government^[2] until 2016. He had been elected four consecutive times for Margherita.^[3]

Previously, he was also the President of National Students’ Union of India in Assam. He was minister of state for home affairs and later promoted as minister of state with independent charge for environment and forest, Bordoloi also was a Cabinet minister for power, industries and commerce.^[4]

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