Jagadish Bhuyan

Jagadish Bhuyan is an Assam Movement student leader and politician from Assam who served two terms as an MLA of the Assam Legislative Assembly from the Sadiya legislative assembly constituency in Tinsukia district, and as tourism minister in the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta government from 1998-2001. Originally a leader in the Asom Gana Parishad, in June 2015 he abandoned the faltering AGP for the Bharatiya Janata Party.

From 1979 Bhuyan was an active member and eventually paid staff member for the All Assam Student Union and later of the National Student Co-ordination Committee of which the AASU was a part.

In 1995 he joined the AGP, and in the 1996 Assam Legislative Assembly was elected as the youngest MLA of that session of the Assembly. In the year of 1998 he became Minister of Tourism; he was re-elected as MLA in 2001.

He remained active in the AGP, but in 2015 announced that he and several other senior AGP leaders from the Tinsukia region were leaving the party, stating “I have lost faith in the AGP which has become directionless... [t]he BJP on the other hand is the right party to fight for the cause of Assam.”