Bhrigu Phukan

Bhrigu Phukan (7 April 1956 – 20 March 2006) was an Indian politician, a leader of Asom Gana Parishad and cabinet minister in the Government of Assam in the First Mahanta Ministry. He was one of the three signatories to the Assam Accord. Phukan was born on 25 April 1956. From 1985, he was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly for three consecutive terms from the prestigious Jalukbari constituency.

Early life

He was a graduate of Dibrugarh University. He also obtained a law degree from Gauhati University.

In 1985 after the conclusion of the Assam movement with the signing of the historic Assam Accord, peace was restored in the state, and Phukan along with others founded the Asom Gana Parishad.

The two factions united three years later and Phukan was appointed executive president of the Asom Gana Parishad. He quit the Asom Gana Parishad again in 1996 following differences with Mahanta and joined another political party.

In 2001, Phukan lost as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate to Himanta Biswa Sarma of the Congress, a student leader whom he had earlier groomed and who joined the BJP in 2015.

Phukan again returned to the Asom Gana Parishad in 2004 and contested the Lok Sabha (parliament) elections from Guwahati constituency but lost.

Personal life

He died of multiple organ failure on 20 March 2006 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and is survived by his wife Indira and a daughter Upasa.