Chandra Mohan Patowary | |
Office: | Cabinet Minister, Government of Assam |
Term Start: | 24 May 2016 |
1Blankname: | Chief Ministers |
1Namedata: | Sarbananda Sonowal Himanta Biswa Sarma |
2Blankname: | Portfolios |
2Namedata: |
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Term Start1: | 12 June 1996 |
Term End1: | 17 May 2001 |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta |
2Blankname1: | Portfolios |
2Namedata1: |
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Predecessor1: | Anwara Taimur |
Successor1: | Ardhendu Kumar Dey |
Office2: | Leader of the Opposition, Assam Legislative Assembly |
Term Start2: | 5 September 2007 |
Term End2: | 5 September 2010 |
Predecessor2: | Position vacant |
Successor2: | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta |
Office3: | President, Asom Gana Parishad |
Term Start3: | 21 September 2008 |
Term End3: | 14 May 2011 |
Predecessor3: | Brindaban Goswami |
Successor3: | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta |
Office4: | Member, Assam Legislative Assembly |
Term Start4: | 19 May 2016 |
Constituency4: | Dharmapur |
Predecessor4: | Nilamani Sen Deka |
Term Start5: | 11 May 2006 |
Term End5: | 13 May 2011 |
Predecessor5: | Nilamani Sen Deka |
Successor5: | Nilamani Sen Deka |
Term Start6: | 1985 |
Term End6: | 2001 |
Predecessor6: | Bhumidhar Barman |
Successor6: | Nilamani Sen Deka |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Constituency2: | Dharmapur |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party (from 2014) |
Otherparty: | Asom Gana Parishad (1985–2014) |
Birth Date: | 1955 10, df=yes |
Citizenship: | Indian |
Spouse: | Rita Chowdhury |
Education: | M.A., LL.B. |
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]