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About Kabindra Purkayastha
- Kabindra Purkayastha (born 15 December 1931) is a former union minister of state of India.
- He served as minister of state for communication in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999.
- He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam, India. He was born in 1931 in Kamarkhal in Sylhet district now in Bangladesh and studied M.A.
- at Gauhati University. He was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1991 from Silchar constituency in Assam.
- He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 from same constituency.
- In 2009, he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha, defeating heavyweight candidates Santosh Mohan Dev of Indian National Congress and Badruddin Ajmal of AUDF from Silchar.
- But in 2014 LS-election, he has been defeated by Sushmita Dev (INC), daughter of Santosh Mohan Dev, despite the Modi-wave in his favour.
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