Padma Kumari Gohain

Padmavati Kumari Gohain (24 February 1913 – 1987) was an Indian stateswoman, social worker, writer, and descendant of the Ahom dynasty who served as Minister for Social Welfare, Sericulture and Weaving from 1970 to 1972. She previously served as Minister of State for Social Welfare, Relief and Rehabilitation from 1967 to 1970. A member of the Indian National Congress, she was the Member of Assam Legislative Assembly for Moran for three terms from 1957 to 1972.

Gohain was the first post-independence female cabinet minister in Assam, the only woman to contest every general election from 1946 to 1967, the first woman to contest for a general Assam assembly seat, and one of the first female MLAs in Assam. She was the mother-in-law of Chief Minister Keshab Chandra Gogoi, and maternal grandmother of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.