Veteran CPI leader Dhrupad Borgohain passes away in Dibrugarh

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JORHAT: Veteran Community Party of India (CPI) leader and former Rajya Sabha MP as well as Sivasagar MLA, Dhrupad Borgohain passed away at a private nursing home in Dibrugarh on Wednesday morning. He was 78. He was suffering from cancer. Borgohain leaves behind his wife Amiyo Borgohain and a host of relatives. His body was brought from Dibrugarh and people thronged to the CPI district headquarter, Sivasagar to pay their last respects to the veteran leader. The CPI flag was flown at half-mast. Several veteran CPI leaders, AASU’s Lorinjyoti Gogoi, Congress candidate for the 12-Jorhat HPC, Sushanta Borgohain and other dignitaries paid their last respect to the departed soul. Later, his body was taken to Madurii in Nazira under Sivasagar district where his last rites were performed.

Drupad Borgohain was born on November 7, 1941. A teacher by profession, he worked at the Maduri Middle Vernacular School during 1960–1961. He went on to teach at the Chakimukh Middle English School between October 1961 and January 1963, and then at Nazira Higher Secondary Multi-Purpose School from 1 February 1963 until December 31, 1982.

He became a CPI party member in April 1963. He was active in the All India Youth Federation between 1965 and 1978, being elected to its national council. He served as joint secretary of the Assam State Council of AIYF between 1965 and 1968, then becoming the president of the Assam State Council.

Borgohain was a member of the Rajya Sabha between April 1998 and April 2004. He stood as a candidate in the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat in the 2004 general election. Borgohain finished in second place with 172,332 votes. Borgohain contested the 2006 Assam Legislative Assembly election. He won the Nazira seat, defeating Congress candidate Hemoprova Saikia. Borgohain again contested the Jorhat seat in the 2009 general election. He finished in third place. He also lost the Nazira assembly seat in the 2011 election. He finished in second place, being defeated by Debabrata Saikia of the Congress.

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