Ripun Bora is a leader of the

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party hailing from

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. He is now serving as President of the

Assam Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

. He was the former President,

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, MP of Rajya Sabha for Assam and Ex- Education Minister Govt of Assam. On 21 March 2016, he has been elected to the

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, the Upper House of Indian Parliament along with

Ranee Narah Ranee Narah (born 31 October 1965) is an Indian National Congress politician from Assam, and former Rajya Sabha MP for the state between 2016-2022. She was previously a three-term Lok Sabha MP from Lakhimpur constituency, 1998-2004 and 2009-2 ...

also from the

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. Congress got support from

AIUDF The All India United Democratic Front (also known as AIUDF and ''Sarva Bharatiya Sanyukt Ganatantric Morcha'') is a political party active in the Indian state of Assam. It is the 3rd largest political party in Assam Legislative Assembly after B ...

for the biennial Rajya Sabha election held on that day. Out of 114 MLAs, 85 (67 of INC, 16 of AIUDF, 1 Independent, 1 BJP voted for the Congress candidate. AGP, BJP, BPF boycotted the election even when it had earlier committed to support Mahabir Jain who had filed nomination paper as Independent.

Controversy

On 21 September 2020, Ripun Bora along with seven other members were suspended from the

for their unruly behaviour in the house by tearing documents, breaking mics and heckling the

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. Their actions were condemned by several leaders. On 3 June 2008 then Education Minister of Assam, Ripun Bora was arrested in Delhi for offering and paying bribe of Rs 10 lakh to a CBI official, who was investigating the murder of Daniel Topno which happened on September 27, 2000. Bora was one of the accused in the murder case. Topno, who was the District President of All Assam Tea Tribe Students Union, was Bora's political rival during 1996 Assam Assembly Election. The case was handed over to CBI in 2001 after Assam Police failed to make any progress. Although, in 2014 Kamrup Metro Session Court acquitted Bora, CBI filed a criminal revision petition in

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and the case was registered on 3 June. No hearing has taken place on the matter since 2014.

References

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