Pradan Baruah

Pradan Baruah
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 November 2016
Preceded bySarbananda Sonowal
ConstituencyLakhimpur
Member of Legislative Assembly
for Dhemaji
In office
19 May 2016 – 22 November 2016
Preceded bySumitra Patir
Succeeded byDr. Ranoj Pegu
Personal details
Born (1965-04-30) 30 April 1965 (age 59)
Silapathar, Dhemaji, Assam
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseArunima Baruah
Children2
ResidenceDhemaji, Assam
OccupationSocial worker
politician
As of 12 December, 2016
Source: [1]

Pradan Baruah is an Indian politician who is member of Parliament and elected to 16th Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur seat since November 2016. He won the by-election in November 2016, after the sitting member Sarbananda Sonowal resigned from the seat in May 2016 after becoming the Chief Minister of Assam.[1] He was earlier the member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Dhemaji Assembly constituency (no. 113) in Dhemaji district.

He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. Previously, Baruah was member of Indian National Congress but defected from Congress before the assembly election along with Himanta Biswa Sarma in 2016.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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