Ripun Bora

Ripun Bora (born 1 October 1955) is an Indian politician from Assam and member of the Indian National Congress. He was the President of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 2016 to 2021. He was the President of the Assam Trinamool Congress from 2022 to 2024. Bora was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha for Assam from 2016 to 2022, and he served as the MLA of Gohpur in the Assam Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2011. Bora was a cabinet minister in the Assam Government under Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi.

Biography Bora is a graduate of Gauhati University. He was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from Gohpur in 2001, and re-elected in 2006. He was a minister of state in the first Tarun Gogoi-led Indian National Congress government in Assam, and a cabinet minister in the second Gogoi ministry. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2016, and represented Assam until 2022. In 2012, he was acquitted of the bribery charge, and in 2014, the Kamrup Metro Session Court discharged him from the case completely.