Karnendu Bhattacharjee (2 May 1938 – 23 December 2022) was an Indian politician who served as a

Member of the Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often ...

. A member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

party, he represented

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 the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

, the upper house of the Indian Parliament from 1996 to 2008. Bhattacharjee died on 23 December 2022, at the age of 84.Two Times Rajya Sabha MP, Cachar Congress' Karnendu Bhattacharjee Passes Away at 84
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Profile on Rajya Sabha website
1938 births Place of birth missing 2022 deaths Indian National Congress politicians Indian National Congress politicians from Assam Rajya Sabha members from Assam {{Assam-INC-politician-stub