Gaurav Gogoi (born 4 September 1982) is an Indian politician and social worker of

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from

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

who is serving as the Deputy Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha since 2024. He is currently representing the Jorhat Lok Sabha Constituency in

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since 2024. From 2020 till 2024, He served as the Deputy leader of Indian National Congress parliamentary party under

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (born 2 April 1956) is an Indian politician who served as the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha and from 2019 to 2024 and the Member of Parliament from Berhampore from 1999 to 2024. He has ser ...

. He had represented the Kaliabor Constituency in the

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and the

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from 2014 till 2024, after which the constituency was abolished. He is the son of former Chief Minister of Assam

Tarun Gogoi Tarun Gogoi (1 April 1936 – 23 November 2020) was an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 13th Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He was the longest serving Chief Minister of Assam. He was a member of the Indian National Con ...

. He left his job at

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to join a

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-based NGO called Pravah in 2005.

Early life and personal life

Gaurav Gogoi was born in

on 4 September 1982. His father,

, served as Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016 as the longest-serving chief minister of the state. Gogoi studied at St. Columba's School, Delhi. He then completed a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2004 from

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, formerly Indraprastha University (IP or IPU), is a state university located in Dwarka, Delhi, India. The university is organised around fourteen university schools and three university centers that f ...

, and then joined the marketing team of Airtel. He later went to the

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to study

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. He holds a

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from

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. He also enjoys

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and

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. In 2013, Gogoi married UK-born Elizabeth Colebourn. In 2014, he joined the Congress Party and served as the Member of the Indian Parliament from

Kaliabor Kaliabor, a sub-division town in Nagaon district of Assam situated at a distance of 48 km east of Nagaon town. It was the headquarters of Borphukans during the Ahom era. Kaliabor lies in the middle of assam and surrounded in the north by ...

(Assumed office 1 September 2014). He and his wife have 2 children—one son and one daughter (born 2016 and 2020). Other luminaries related to Gogoi are Poet Ganesh Gogoi (granduncle), Film Producer Paran Barbarooah (uncle),

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Prerana Barbarooah (cousin), and politician Dip Gogoi (uncle).

Political career

Upon his return, he entered politics and said that he would do whatever the party wanted him to do. In March 2014, the Congress Party announced Gogoi as its candidate from Kaliabor (Lok Sabha constituency). After the announcement, Gogoi filed his nomination on 19 March 2014. He won his first election polling a total of 443,315 votes beating his nearest rival, Mrinal Kumar Saikia of BJP by over 93,000 votes. On 8 August 2023, Gogoi lead the No confidence motion against

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government under leadership of

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. He asked three questions to Modi government: “Why did he not visit Manipur to date? Why did it take almost 80 days to finally speak on Manipur and when he did speak it was just for 30 seconds? Why has the Chief Minister of Manipur not been sacked so far?," Gogoi mentioned that since Prime Minister Modi choose to remain silent on the Manipur issue, opposition parties under I.N.D.I.A alliance had to move on No Confidence Motion against his government. I.N.D.I.A. alliance wanted Prime Minister to address parliament on Manipur violence. This no-confidence motion failed to succeed since it did not garner enough support from members in the Parliament. On 26 may 2025, he was elected as president of Assam Congress Committee by the National Committee.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gogoi, Gaurav Living people 1982 births New York University alumni India MPs 2014–2019 Lok Sabha members from Assam India MPs 2019–2024 Indian National Congress politicians from Assam People from Jorhat district India MPs 2024–2029 Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance candidates in 2024 Indian general election