Tarun Gogoi was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and led the party to a record three consecutive electoral victories in the state. He had also served six terms as a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha.
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Tarun Gogoi was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and led the party to a record three consecutive electoral victories in the state. He is credited with ending militant insurgency and mitigating violence in addition to improving the state’s fiscal condition. He had also served six terms as a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha. He served in the Union Cabinet of India under Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao as the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries between 1991 and 1996.
Stemming from dissent within the party that saw 32 MLAs resign, he could not get the IndianNational Congress to victory in the 2016 legislative assembly elections. Sarbananda Sonowal from the Bharatiya Janata Party went on to win the elections and become the chief minister. He died in a car crash in Guwahati, Assam, on December 31, 2016. His son, Gaurav Gogoa, was the younger sister of the Assamese poet Ganesh Gogai. He has two children, a son and a daughter-in-law.
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