Bhubaneswar Kalita (born 1 April 1951) is an Indian social worker, politician and was a Member of Parliament (

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) elected from

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

being an

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candidate. He quit his party on 5 August citing the party is opposed to national interest and is paving its own way for destruction. He joined BJP on 9 August 2019. He was elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha on 18 March as a

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candidate. He has completed Masters in Arts in 1974 and L.L.B. in 1978 from Gauhati University. Earlier he had studied B.A. from Cotton College, Guwahati in 1971 and had done Matriculation from Rangia High School at Rangia in 1967.

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Living people Rajya Sabha members from Assam 1951 births People from Kamrup district India MPs 1998–1999 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Assam Indian National Congress politicians from Assam Lok Sabha members from Assam Assam MLAs 2001–2006 {{Assam-BJP-politician-stub