Charan Narzary (28 May 1933 – 23 July 2019) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the

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 ...

, lower house of the

Parliament of India The Parliament of India (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the R ...

from the Kokrajhar in

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 ...

in 1977 as an

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

. He founded

Plain Tribals Council of Assam The Plain Tribals Council of Assam is a political party in the Indian state of Assam. In 1966, the PTCA launched an agitation for a separate for the plains tribal communities of Assam state called 'Udayachal' under the leadership of Samar Brah ...

in 1966 a militant agitation for a separate tribal and indigenous Scheduled Caste communities state called '' Udayachal'' under the leadership of Samar Brahma Chowdhury and Narzary, President and General Secretary of PTCA respectively. He was a poet and writer and was teacher at

Kokrajhar College Kokrajhar Govt. College Kokrajhar Govt. College (then Kokrajhar College) was established in 1959 at the heart of the town with a noble vision of bringing higher education to common people in general and the tribal people in particular. The Kokra ...

.Prominent Bodo nationalism icon Charan Narzary passes away in Guwahati
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Narzary, Charan India MPs 1977–1979 Lok Sabha members from Assam 1933 births 2019 deaths Independent politicians in India People from Kokrajhar Assam MLAs 1985–1991 Bodo people