Pradyut Bordoloi

Pradyut Bordoloi (born 28 April 1959) is an Indian National Congress politician from Assam currently serving as the Member of Parliament for Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency since 2019. He was previously a four-term member of the Assam Legislative Assembly representing Margherita from 1998 to 2016, and a minister in the Government of Assam between 2001 and 2015.

Early life
Bordoloi was born on 28 March 1958 in Margherita, Assam. He graduated from Cotton College, Gauhati University with a MA, and from Jawaharlal Nehru University with a MPhil. He was the President of the Assam unit of the National Students’ Union of India.

Political career
Bordoloi was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from Margherita in a by-poll in 1998, and was re-elected in 2001, 2006, and 2011. He was a minister of state in the First Tarun Gogoi Ministry from 2001 to 2006. He held portfolios of Industries, Commerce, Power, and Public Enterprises as a senior cabinet minister in the Second Tarun Gogoi Ministry and Third Tarun Gogoi Ministry from 2006 to 2015. He stepped down as a minister in the 2015 cabinet reshuffle, and was subsequently appointed senior government spokesperson and advisor to the Chief Minister. In 2019, Bordoloi was elected to the Lok Sabha from Nowgong.