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'''Kabindra Purkayastha''' (born 15 December 1931<ref>{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=3568|title=Fifteenth Lok Sabha members bioprofile - Shri Kabindra Purkayastha|publisher=Lok Sabha website|accessdate=14 March 2010}}</ref>) is a former union minister of state of [[India]]. He served as minister of state for communication in [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] government from 1998 to 1999. He is a senior leader of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] in [[Assam]], [[India]].<br />
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He was born in 1931 in [[Kamarkhal]] in [[Sylhet district]] now in [[Bangladesh]] and studied M.A. at [[Gauhati University]].<br />
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He was first elected to [[Lok Sabha]] in 1991 from [[Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Silchar constituency]] in [[Assam]]. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 from same constituency. In 2009, he was elected to the [[15th Lok Sabha]], defeating heavyweight candidates [[Santosh Mohan Dev]] of [[Indian National Congress|INC]] and [[Badruddin Ajmal]] of [[Assam United Democratic Front|AUDF]] from [[Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Silchar]]. But in 2014 LS-election, he has been defeated by [[Sushmita Dev]] (INC), daughter of [[Santosh Mohan Dev]], despite the Modi-wave in his favour.<br />
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*[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12AS02.htm]<br />
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