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Sarbananda Sonowal

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Sarbananda Sonowal: Union Minister from Assam
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 2021 and also a member of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs since 2021. He 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. Sonowal earlier served as the Assam state unit President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2012 to 2014 and again from 2015 to 2016. He has also 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. He was also the member of the Asom Gana Parishad from 2001 to 2011.

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Central schemes being successfully implemented in Jammu and Kashmir with people's support: Sarbananda Sonowal

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Northeast Diary: Sonowal rewarded for his ‘sacrifice’


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PM Narendra Modi inaugurates cancer care centre in Assam's Dibrugarh

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Union minister Sonowal lauds contribution of Indian seafarers during pandemic

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Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal reviews sea trials of IAC


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Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal resigns from Assam assembly


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Union ministers Sonowal and Murugan, TMC's Sushmita Dev elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha


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Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Assam

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Rajya Sabha bypolls: Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal files nomination from Assam

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