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Kesab Chandra Gogoi was born on 29 September, 1925 in India, is a 9th Chief Minister of Assam. Discover Kesab Chandra Gogoi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation *Politician *Advocate *Social Worker *Practitioner
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 29 September, 1925
Birthday 29 September
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Date of death 5 August, 1998
Died Place Dibrugarh, Assam, India
Nationality India

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His wife is Shanti Priya Gogoi (m. 1951)

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Children 5, including Ranjan

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1925

Kesab Chandra Gogoi (29 September 1925 – 5 August 1998) was an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of the state of Assam for two months in 1982.

For most of his political career, he was a member of Indian National Congress.

He was a finance minister in the Assam state cabinet twice and a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from Dibrugarh constituency.

Gogoi was born into a family of Tai-Ahom.

Gogoi was born in a family of Tai-Ahom on 29 September 1925.

Gogoi had a B.A and LLB.

1930

His wife was also the daughter of Jogesh Chandra Borgohain, who was an MLC in the 1930s.

Gogoi was an advocate at Gauhati High Court and a practitioner in Dibrugarh district court, as well as being a social worker before his entry to politics.

1946

His son, Ranjan Gogoi, became the 46th Chief Justice of India and is presently a Member of the Rajya Sabha.

1951

He was married to Shanti Gogoi in 1951.

His wife was the daughter of Padma Kumari Gohain, one of the first female MLAs in Assam, as well as one of the first female state ministers in Assam.

1978

Gogoi became the MLA for Dibrugarh for the Janata Party in 1978.

He became a minister in the Golap Borbora and Jogendra Nath Hazarika cabinets, before switching to congress where he then became a finance minister under Anwara Taimur.

Gogoi was elected to Assam Legislative Assembly in 1978 as a Janata Party candidate in Dibrugarh.

He received 22003 votes, 57.84% of the total vote and defeated his nearest opponent by 11930 votes.

He became a Minister for Finance, Judicial, Legislative (Law) in the Golap Borbora cabinet.

1979

On 14 July 1979, Borbora reconstituted his ministry.

The re-allocation of portfolios saw the exit of two senior cabinet members, one being Gogoi.

After the Borbora ministry collapsed, Gogoi went over to Jogendra Nath Hazarika's group and became a cabinet minister during Jogendra Nath Hazarika's chief ministership.

1980

With the 1980 Indira Gandhi wave, he joined the Indian National Congress and became Minister of Finance, Power, Steel and Mines and Parliamentary Affairs in the Anwara Taimur cabinet.

1981

He served until 1981.

President N Sanjiva Reddy issued a proclamation revoking President's rule imposed on Assam on 30 June 1981, and extending for another term of six months.

The President's rule was imposed when the government of Anwara Taimur failed to get the Assam appropriation bill passed by the assembly.

1982

He was made Chief Minister of Assam on 13 January 1982, but he later resigned amid a motion of no confidence vote.

He later became a minister in the Hiteswar Saikia cabinet before he was removed for alleged anti-party activities.

Gogoi became one of the Chief Ministers of Assam on 13 January 1982, ending 197 days of President's rule in Assam.

Just before his selection, 4 supporters of Anwara Taimur resigned from the party.

However, Taimur proposed Gogoi for the leadership, as did future Chief Minister Hiteswar Saika.

Earlier, the Taimur camp had encouraged Saikia to contest Gogoi's claim but an opinion poll before the final selection showed there were only 8 backers of Saikia among the 35 partymen assembled while 24 supported Gogoi and 3 remained neutral.

Gogoi told the press a day before his swearing-in that he had backing of 63 out of 125 members of the Assembly.

Minutes after it was known that the Governor, Prakash Mehrotra, had accepted Gogoi's claim, Gogoi was sworn in a ceremony at Raj Bhavan.

Gogoi said that he was giving top priority to the solution of the foreigners issue and the maintenance of law and order.

Gogoi allocated himself the ministries of home, administration reforms, public relations, khadi and village industries, rural development, public works, tourism and all other departments not allocated.

During his tenure, he gave more emphasis on the implementation of National Rural Employment Scheme.

He also emphasised the 20 point programmes launched by Indira Gandhi.

On 17 March 1982 a Motion of No Confidence was moved against the 65-day-old ministry of Gogoi.

The motion was moved against Gogoi jointly by Sarat Chandra Singha, Golap Borbora, Hemen Das, Promode Gogoi, Zainal Abedin, Premadhar Bora and Romesh Mohan Kouli.

1996

His political career ended in the year 1996 and he died in 1998.

Gogoi had 5 children with Shanti Gogoi including Anjan and Ranjan.

His son Anjan is a retired Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force.