Pradan Baruah (born 30 April 1965) is an Indian politician from Assam and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has represented the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency since winning a by-election in November 2016, and was re-elected in 2019 and 2024.
Pradan Baruah
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30 Apr
Amritpur, Silapathar, Dhemaji District, Assam, India
Politician (Lok Sabha MP, Lakhimpur); Agriculturist
Arunima Baruah (m. 1993)
1988–present
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (since 2016)
Lakhimpur, Assam
All Assam Weight Lifting Federation (president)
Married
Taurus
Indian Rupees
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Indian
Baruah was a central executive member of the Asom Gana Parishad in 1998 and later joined the Indian National Congress, where he served as general secretary of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he left the Congress and joined the BJP along with Himanta Biswa Sarma.
In November 2016 he won the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha by-election, held after Sarbananda Sonowal resigned the seat on becoming Chief Minister of Assam. He was re-elected in 2019 by 3,50,551 votes and in 2024 by 2,01,257 votes over Congress candidate Uday Shankar Hazarika, according to Election Commission of India figures.
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