Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi died at 86 on Monday. A lawyer by profession and a long-time politician, here is a look at the over 50-year long career of Tarun Gogoi.
Congress satrap and three-time Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi died on Monday evening from post-Covid complications.
86-year-old Tarun Gogoi had been on life support and was "very very critical" according to doctors at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital where he was being treated for multiple organ failure.
Here is a look at his decades-long career.
Assam's longest-serving CM, Tarun Gogoi was born on April 1, 1936, at Rangajan Tea Estate in erstwhile Sivasagar district, now named the Jorhat district of Assam.
Fondly called Punakon by his parents father Dr Kamaleshwar Gogoi and mother Usha Gogoi, Tarun Gogoi completed his primary education at the No 26 Rangajan Nimna Buniyadi Vidyalaya.
He studied upto Class 4 at Jorhat Madrassa School and then he moved to Bholaguri High School located near Badulipar Tea Estate where he studied till Class 6.
In 1949, Tarun Gogoi was enrolled at the Jorhat Government High School, from where he passed the HSLC examination (Class 10) and he did his graduation from Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat and LLB from Gauhati University.
In 1972, he married Dolly Gogoi and they have two children - daughter Chandrima Gogoi and son Gaurav Gogoi.
Six-time Lok Sabha MP, Tarun Gogoi first represented the Jorhat parliamentary constituency in 197185 and later he was elected from Kaliabor.
During this time, Gogoi served in the Union Cabinet of India under Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao as Union Minister of State in the Food and Food Processing Industry departments from 1991 to 1996.
Tarun Gogoi was the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Food between 1991 and 1993.
From 1993 to 1995, he served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Food Processing Industry.
In the following year, Tarun Gogoi held memberships of Committee on Government Assurances, Committee on External Affairs and Consultative Committee, Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
In 1997, Tarun Gogoi ventured into state politics and served five terms as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Assam Legislative Assembly.
In 1997, he was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from Margherita assembly constituency in Tinsukia district and he elected to the Assam assembly from Titabar constituency since 2001.
He was the chief minister of Assam for three consecutive terms from 2001 to 2016.
He was also a distinguished Congressman and served as the joint secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in 1976 under prime minister Indira Gandhi and later as general secretary of the AICC (198590) under then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
He was also the president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) in 198690 and he was elected to a second term as President of APCC in 1996.
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