Birendra Prasad Baishya is an

Asom Gana Parishad Asom Gana Parishad (translation: ''Assam People's Council'', AGP) is a state political party in Assam, India. The AGP was formed after the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and formally launched at the Golaghat Convention held from 13–14 Octobe ...

politician 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 ...

. He was elected in

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

election in 1996 from Mangaldoi constituency and union minister of Steel and Mines. He was elected to Rajya Sabha in 2008 to 2014 and again in June 2019. Baishya is also President of

Indian Weightlifting Federation Indian Weightlifting Federation otherwise known as IWLF, is the national governing body overseeing the sport of weightlifting in India. The headquarters of the Indian Weightlifting Federation is in New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'' ...

.EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF INDIAN WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION EFFECTIVE 2017-2021
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Living people Asom Gana Parishad politicians Members of the Assam Legislative Assembly People from Baksa district 1956 births Mining ministers of India Steel_Ministers of India Members of the Cabinet of India India MPs 1996–1997 Politicians from Guwahati Lok Sabha members from Assam Rajya Sabha members from Assam Indian sports executives and administrators {{Assam-politician-stub