Leader of the Opposition, Assam Legislative Assembly
In office 5 September 2007 – 5 September 2010
Preceded by
Position vacant
Succeeded by
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Constituency
Dharmapur
President, Asom Gana Parishad
In office 21 September 2008 – 14 May 2011
Preceded by
Brindaban Goswami
Succeeded by
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Member, Assam Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 May 2016
Preceded by
Nilamani Sen Deka
Constituency
Dharmapur
In office 11 May 2006 – 13 May 2011
Preceded by
Nilamani Sen Deka
Succeeded by
Nilamani Sen Deka
In office 1985–2001
Preceded by
Bhumidhar Barman
Succeeded by
Nilamani Sen Deka
Personal details
Born
(1955-10-02) 2 October 1955 (age 68)
Citizenship
Indian
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party (from 2014)
Other political affiliations
Asom Gana Parishad (1985–2014)
Spouse
Rita Chowdhury
Education
M.A., LL.B.
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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]
^"Leader of Opposition". Government of Assam. Archived from the original on 15 March 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
^"Patowary out of AGP race". The Telegraph. 23 April 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
^"AGP President Patowary resigns". The Hindu. 14 May 2011.
^"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.
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