Kesab Chandra Gogoi

Kesab Chandra Gogoi
9th Chief Minister of Assam
In office
13 January 1982 – 19 March 1982
Preceded byPresident's rule
Succeeded byPresident's rule
Member of Assam Legislative Assembly
In office
21 March 1978 – 11 June 1996
Preceded byRamesh Chandra Barooah
Succeeded byKalyan Kumar Gogoi
ConstituencyDibrugah
Minister for Public Enterprises
In office
18 October 1991 - 27 November 1991
Chief MinisterHiteswar Saikia
Minister for Planning and Development
In office
30 June 1991 - 18 October 1991
Chief MinisterHiteswar Saikia
Minister for the Revenue and Industries
In office
27 February 1983 - ?
Chief MinisterHiteswar Saikia
Minister of Finance, Power, Steel and Mines and Parliamentary Affairs
In office
6 December 1980 - 30 June 1981
Chief MinisterAnwara Taimur
Cabinet Minister of the Government of Assam
In office
9 September 1979 - 11 December 1979
Chief MinisterJogendra Nath Hazarika
Minister for Finance, Judicial , Legislative (Law)
In office
12 March 1978 - 14 July 1979
Chief MinisterGolap Borbora
Personal details
Born(1925-09-29)29 September 1925
Died5 August 1998(1998-08-05) (aged 72)
Dibrugarh, Assam, India
Nationality Indian
Political partyAll India Indira Congress (Tiwari) (1992-1998)
Other political
affiliations		Janata Party (1978-1980)
Indian National Congress (1980-1992)
Spouse
Shanti Priya Gogoi
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(m. 1951)​
Children5, including Ranjan[1]
Occupation

Kesab Chandra Gogoi (29 September 1925 – 5 August 1998) was an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of the state of Assam for two months in 1982.[2] For most of his political career, he was a member of Indian National Congress. He was a finance minister in the Assam state cabinet twice and a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from Dibrugarh constituency.

Gogoi was born into a family of Tai-Ahom. He was married to Shanti Gogoi in 1951. His wife was the daughter of Padma Kumari Gohain, one of the first female MLAs in Assam, as well as one of the first female state ministers in Assam.[3] His wife was also the daughter of Jogesh Chandra Borgohain, who was an MLC in the 1930s. Gogoi was an advocate at Gauhati High Court and a practitioner in Dibrugarh district court, as well as being a social worker before his entry to politics.[4]

Gogoi became the MLA for Dibrugarh for the Janata Party in 1978. He became a minister in the Golap Borbora and Jogendra Nath Hazarika cabinets, before switching to congress where he then became a finance minister under Anwara Taimur. He was made Chief Minister of Assam on 13 January 1982, but he later resigned amid a motion of no confidence vote. He later became a minister in the Hiteswar Saikia cabinet before he was removed for alleged anti-party activities. His political career ended in the year 1996 and he died in 1998.[5]

Gogoi had 5 children with Shanti Gogoi including Anjan and Ranjan. His son Anjan is a retired Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force. His son, Ranjan Gogoi, became the 46th Chief Justice of India and is presently a Member of the Rajya Sabha.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ Karmakar, Rahul (8 September 2018). "Who is Ranjan Gogoi, and what is he known for?". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Assam Legislative Assembly – Chief Minister of Assam since 1937". Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  3. ^ Grover, Verinder; Arora, Ranjana (1994). Development of Politics and Government in India. Deep & Deep Publications. ISBN 978-81-7100-548-2.
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  8. ^ Nair, Sobhana K. (19 March 2020). "As former CJI Ranjan Gogoi takes oath as Rajya Sabha member, Opposition walks out". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 4 May 2022.