18 Facts About Sarbananda Sonowal

Sarbananda Sonowal is an Indian politician of Bharatiya Janata Party from Assam who is serving as the current Cabinet Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Cabinet Minister of AYUSH, Government of India and the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Assam since 2021and a member of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs since 2021.

Sarbananda Sonowal is the 14th Chief Minister of Assam from 2016 to 2021 and the former of Assam Legislative Assembly from Majuli from 2016 until he resigned in 2021 and from Moran constituency from 2001 to 2004.

Sarbananda Sonowal has served as the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of India, from 2014 to 2016 and the Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Skill Development from 2014 to 2014 and the member of the Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur from 2014 to 2016 and from Dibrugarh from 2004 to 2009.

Sarbananda Sonowal was the member of the Asom Gana Parishad from 2001 to 2011.

Sarbananda Sonowal was born on 31 October 1962 to an Assamese Hindu family in Muluk Gaon located in the Dibrugarh district of Assam to Jibeswar Sonowal and Dineswari Sonowal.

Sarbananda Sonowal did his schooling at Don Bosco High School, Dibrugarh.

Sarbananda Sonowal was the President of Assam's oldest student body, the All Assam Students Union from 1992 to 1999.

Sarbananda Sonowal lost Lok Sabha election from Dibrugarh in 2009.

Sarbananda Sonowal was appointed president of BJP's Assam Unit in 2012 and is a member of the party's National Executive.

Sarbananda Sonowal was then appointed as Union Minister of State-Independent Charge, of the Government of India under the Modi Government at the center.

Sarbananda Sonowal was selected as the CM candidate of BJP for the 2016 Assam Assembly Election.

On 19 May 2016, Sarbananda Sonowal won the Assembly Election from Majuli Constituency, and he became Chief Minister of Assam, the first CM of the state from Bharatiya Janata Party.

Sarbananda Sonowal resigned as Chief Minister and proposed Himanta Biswa Sarma's name as his successor.

Sarbananda Sonowal became Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Minister of AYUSH in Second Modi ministry when cabinet overhaul happened.

Sarbananda Sonowal resigned from all executive posts within AGP and left the party, due to dissatisfaction with and amongst the senior leadership of the party who were trying to forge an alliance with a party that was against the scrapping of the controversial IMDT Act.

On 8 February 2011, Sarbananda Sonowal joined BJP in the presence of the then BJP National President Nitin Gadkari and senior leaders like Varun Gandhi, Vijay Goel, Bijoya Chakravarty and state BJP president Ranjit Dutta.

Sarbananda Sonowal was immediately appointed as a member of the BJP National Executive and later on the State Spokesperson of the BJP unit, prior to his current assignment to head the state as the new president.

Sarbananda Sonowal took the issue of Bangladeshi infiltration to the Supreme Court.