Chandra Mohan Patowary

Chandra Mohan Patowary
Cabinet Minister, Government of Assam
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 May 2016
Chief MinistersSarbananda Sonowal
Himanta Biswa Sarma
Portfolios
  • Transport (2016–2022)
  • Commerce and Industry, Skill Entrepreneurship and Employment (2016–2022)
  • Parliamentary Affairs (2016–2021)
  • Act East Policy Affairs (2017–2021, 2022–present)
  • Welfare of Minorities (2021–present)
  • Environment and Forests (2022–present)
Preceded byAjit Singh (Transport)
Siddique Ahmed (Commerce & Industry)
Rakibul Hussain (Parliamentary Affairs)
Ranjit Dutta (Minorities Welfare)
Parimal Suklabaidya (Environment & Forests)
In office
12 June 1996 – 17 May 2001
Chief MinisterPrafulla Kumar Mahanta
Portfolios
  • Agriculture
Preceded byAnwara Taimur
Succeeded byArdhendu Kumar Dey
Leader of the Opposition,
Assam Legislative Assembly
In office
5 September 2007 – 5 September 2010
Preceded byPosition vacant
Succeeded byPrafulla Kumar Mahanta
ConstituencyDharmapur
President, Asom Gana Parishad
In office
21 September 2008 – 14 May 2011
Preceded byBrindaban Goswami
Succeeded byPrafulla Kumar Mahanta
Member, Assam Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 May 2016
Preceded byNilamani Sen Deka
ConstituencyDharmapur
In office
11 May 2006 – 13 May 2011
Preceded byNilamani Sen Deka
Succeeded byNilamani Sen Deka
In office
1985–2001
Preceded byBhumidhar Barman
Succeeded byNilamani Sen Deka
Personal details
Born (1955-10-02) 2 October 1955 (age 69)
CitizenshipIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (from 2014)
Other political
affiliations		Asom Gana Parishad (1985–2014)
SpouseRita Chowdhury
EducationM.A., LL.B.
[1]

Chandra Mohan Patowary (born 2 October 1955) is an Indian politician from Assam who is currently serving as the Minister of Environment and Forests, Act East Policy Affairs, Welfare of Minorities in the cabinet of Himanta Biswa Sarma since 2021. He was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly six times from the Dharmapur constituency. He had also served as a cabinet minister between 1996 and 2001 and from 2016 and 2021 and as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011. He was the health minister of Assam from 1985 to 1990 and agriculture minister from 1996 to 2001. He was the president of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) during 2008–2011.[2] He resigned owning responsibility for the party's poor performance in the 2011 Assam Legislative Assembly elections.[3] In 2014, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of then BJP National President Rajnath Singh and State President of BJP Assam Pradesh Shri Sarbananda Sonowal.[4]

  1. ^ "Leader of Opposition". Government of Assam. Archived from the original on 15 March 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Patowary out of AGP race". The Telegraph. 23 April 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
  3. ^ "AGP President Patowary resigns". The Hindu. 14 May 2011.
  4. ^ "BJP inducts ex-AGP chief Chandra Mohan, shutting alliance talks". The Free Press Journal. 11 March 2014. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.