Chandra Mohan Patowary

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Chandra Mohan Patowary

| office = Cabinet Minister, Government of Assam

| term_start = 24 May 2016

| 1blankname = Chief Ministers

| 1namedata = Sarbananda Sonowal
Himanta Biswa Sarma

| 2blankname = Portfolios

| 2namedata =

• Transport {{small|(2016{{ndash}}2022)}}
• Commerce and Industry, Skill Entrepreneurship and Employment {{small|(2016{{ndash}}2022)}}
• Parliamentary Affairs {{small|(2016{{ndash}}2021)}}
• Act East Policy Affairs {{small|(2017{{ndash}}2021, 2022{{ndash}}present)}}
• Welfare of Minorities {{small|(2021{{ndash}}present)}}
• Environment and Forests {{small|(2022{{ndash}}present)}}

| predecessor = Ajit Singh {{small|(Transport)}}
Siddique Ahmed {{small|(Commerce & Industry)}}
Rakibul Hussain {{small|(Parliamentary Affairs)}}
Ranjit Dutta {{small|(Minorities Welfare)}}
Parimal Suklabaidya {{small|(Environment & Forests)}}

| term_start1 = 12 June 1996

| term_end1 = 17 May 2001

| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister

| 1namedata1 = Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

| 2blankname1 = Portfolios

| 2namedata1 =

• Agriculture

| predecessor1 = Anwara Taimur

| successor1 = Ardhendu Kumar Dey

| office2 = Leader of the Opposition,
Assam Legislative Assembly

| term_start2 = 5 September 2007

| term_end2 = 5 September 2010

| predecessor2 = Position vacant

| successor2 = Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

| office3 = President, Asom Gana Parishad

| term_start3 = 21 September 2008

| term_end3 = 14 May 2011

| predecessor3 = Brindaban Goswami

| successor3 = Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

| office4 = Member, Assam Legislative Assembly

| term_start4 = 19 May 2016

| constituency4 = Dharmapur

| predecessor4 = Nilamani Sen Deka

| term_start5 = 11 May 2006

| term_end5 = 13 May 2011

| predecessor5 = Nilamani Sen Deka

| successor5 = Nilamani Sen Deka

| term_start6 = 1985

| term_end6 = 2001

| predecessor6 = Bhumidhar Barman

| successor6 = Nilamani Sen Deka

| footnotes = {{cite web | url = http://assamgovt.nic.in/who_is_who/leader.asp | title = Leader of Opposition | accessdate = 2014-04-01 | publisher = Government of Assam | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130315174316/http://assamgovt.nic.in/who_is_who/leader.asp | archivedate = 2013-03-15 }}

| constituency2 = Dharmapur

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party (from 2014)

| otherparty = Asom Gana Parishad (1985–2014)

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|10|2}}

| citizenship = Indian

| spouse = Rita Chowdhury

| education = M.A., LL.B.

}}

Chandra Mohan Patowary (born 2 October 1955) is an Indian politician from Assam who is currently serving as the Minister of Environment and Forests, Act East Policy Affairs, Welfare of Minorities in the cabinet of Himanta Biswa Sarma since 2021. He was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly six times from the Dharmapur constituency. He had also served as a cabinet minister between 1996 and 2001 and from 2016 and 2021 and as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011. He was the health minister of Assam from 1985 to 1990 and agriculture minister from 1996 to 2001. He was the president of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) during 2008–2011.{{cite news | url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120423/jsp/northeast/story_15405784.jsp#.UztiKVcQ3IU | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140407065927/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120423/jsp/northeast/story_15405784.jsp#.UztiKVcQ3IU | url-status = dead | archive-date = 7 April 2014 | title = Patowary out of AGP race | date = 2012-04-23 | newspaper = The Telegraph }} He resigned owning responsibility for the party's poor performance in the 2011 Assam Legislative Assembly elections.{{cite news | url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/agp-president-patowary-resigns/article2018942.ece | title = AGP President Patowary resigns | date = 2011-05-14 | newspaper = The Hindu }} In 2014, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of then BJP National President Rajnath Singh and State President of BJP Assam Pradesh Shri Sarbananda Sonowal.{{cite news | url = http://freepressjournal.in/bjp-inducts-ex-agp-chief-chandra-mohan-shutting-alliance-talks/ | title = BJP inducts ex-AGP chief Chandra Mohan, shutting alliance talks | date = 2014-03-11 | newspaper = The Free Press Journal | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140407194236/http://freepressjournal.in/bjp-inducts-ex-agp-chief-chandra-mohan-shutting-alliance-talks/ | archivedate = 2014-04-07 }}

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