Kamakhya Prasad Tasa (born 1 June 1975) is an Indian politician from Assam and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He represents Kaziranga in the 18th Lok Sabha, elected in 2024. He earlier served as Lok Sabha MP from Jorhat (2014–2019) and as a Rajya Sabha member from Assam (2019–2024), and has been a national secretary of the BJP.
Kamakhya Prasad Tasa
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01 Jun
Hattigarh Tea Estate, Jorhat, Assam, India
Politician (Lok Sabha MP, Kaziranga); Businessperson
Kabita Tasa (m. 2001)
1991–present
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (since 2024); BJP National Secretary
Kaziranga, Assam
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Married
Gemini
Indian Rupees
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Tasa joined the BJP and served as vice-president of the party's Assam unit from 2013. In the 2014 general election he won the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat. In June 2019 he was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Assam, filling the seat vacated by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In 2023 the party appointed him a national secretary.
In 2024 he contested the newly formed Kaziranga constituency and defeated Congress candidate Roselina Tirkey by 2,48,947 votes (8,97,043 to 6,48,096), according to Election Commission of India figures. In the Lok Sabha he has spoken on railway grants and issues of the tea-garden belt.
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