Chabilal Upadhyaya was born on 12 May 1882 at Budhigang (Undivided Darrang) present day Biswanath district, was the first (selected) president of the Assam Pradesh Congress committee. In 1919 Upadhyaya's family settled at Mazgaon (Gongmouthan), Behali Tehsil.
Political contributions
Chabilal Upadhyaya, popularly known as Chabilal Babu was a prominent leader of the
Indian Freedom Movement
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The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged ...
from Assam.Upadhyaya joined the war of independence. On April 18, 1921, a meeting chaired by Upadhyaya was held in jorhat where the '' Assam Association'' was merged with ''
Indian National Congress
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Non-Cooperation movement
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All India Gorkha League
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''.
Now, ''
Government of Assam
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'' announced that an
engineering college
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will be established in Behali, Assam which will be named after Chabilal Upadhyaya.
Indian National Congress
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Biswanath District
Biswanath (IPA: ˌbɪswəˈnɑːθ ˈtʃɑːrɪˌælɪ) is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. It is one of newly created district in the year by 2015, declared by Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on 15 August 2015. The dis ...
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 ...