Gaurav Gogoi


Gaurav Gogoi is an Indian politician of Indian National Congress from Indian state of Assam. He contested for the Indian general election Indian general election 2014 and 2019 from Kaliabor seat and won. Gaurav left his job at Airtel to join a Delhi-based NGO called Pravah in 2005.

Early life

Gaurav Gogoi was born in 1982. His father Tarun Gogoi served as Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016 as the longest serving chief minister of the state. He graduated from St. Columba's School in Delhi. He then completed B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2004 from Indraprastha University, Delhi and then joined the marketing team of Airtel. He later went to the United States of America to study public administration. He holds a Master of Public Administration from New York University
He also enjoys dancing and choreography. In 2013, Gaurav married UK-born Elizabeth Colebourn. In 2014, Gaurav joined the Congress Party and is the Member of the Indian Parliament for Kaliabor.

Political career

Upon his return he joined politics and said that he would do whatever the party wanted him to do. In March 2014 Congress Party announced Gogoi as its candidate from Kaliabor. After the announcement Gogoi filed his nomination on 19 March 2014.
He won his first election polling a total of 443,315 votes beating his nearest rival, Mrinal Kumar Saikia of BJP by over 93,000 votes.