Party Name : Asom Gana Parishad
Constituency : Nowgong
State : Assam
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 3 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 11
More Information :
Positions Held : 1954-57 President, Rural Meleka Panchayat, Bongaon, Jakai Chook Monsa 1957-60 Chairman, Panchayat, Amguri Anchalik, Sibsagar 1985 Elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth) 1991 Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) 1996 Elected to Lok Sabha (Eleventh) for the third time June 1996 onwards Minister of State in the Department of Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development
Social and Cultural Activities :
Special Interests : Social work
Countries visited : Widely travelled
Other Information : Participated in Independence Movement during Student life at the time when he left School for a year; Participated in the Movement for the establishment of Oil Refinery in Assam; In Assam Movement led by All Assam Students Union in 1979 was arrested six times; Confined in different jails Bhagalpur, Jorhat, Guwahati, Silchar and Nagaon Jails; Assistant Teacher in Ganisagar Higher Secondary School; Professor, (i) D.R. College, Gudia Ghat, Assam, 1951 for one year; (ii) Sibsagar College, Department of Economics for eighteen years; Member (i) Executive Council, Guwahati for nine years; (ii) General Council, Guwahati and Dibrugarh Universities (iii) State Selection Board for Principals and Professors of Govenment Aided Colleges; Convener, Bharat Sevak Samaj, Sibsagar for three years; Principal (i) Sibsagar Girls College, Sibsagar for one year (ii) Nagaon College for fifteen years; Vice-Principal, Sibsagar College for one year; Chairman, College Teachers Association for one year; also associated with various political and social organisations
