Kushal Dowari

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Kushal Dowari (born 1 July 1966 in Bokata Khamun, Sivasagar) is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Assam. He was elected in the Assam Legislative Assembly election in 2016 from Thowra constituency. He is a former militant of United Liberation Front of Asom.{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/assembly-elections-2016/assam-election/story/daughter-furious-over-bjp-for-fielding-her-fathers-killer-in-assam-316286-2016-04-04 | title=Journalist's daughter furious over BJP for fielding her father's killer | date=4 April 2016 | publisher=India Today | author=Indo-Asian News Service | accessdate=12 January 2019 }}[http://myneta.info/assam2016/candidate.php?candidate_id=450 My Neta][http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/why-did-bjp-field-my-father-s-killer-in-assam-asks-journalist-s-daughter-116040400575_1.html The daughter of journalist Kamala Saikia is furious that the BJP has fielded in Assam's assembly elections former ULFA militant Kushal Dowari][http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/such-a-long-journey-from-assam-s-jungles-to-state-assembly--------/4337/ Such a long journey]

Dowari was a SULFA leader before elected as an MLA.{{Cite book |last=Talukdar |first=Mrinal |title=Secret Killings of Assam: The Horror Tales from the Land of Red River and Blue Hills |last2=Borpujari |first2=Utpal |last3=Deka |first3=Kaushik |publisher=Socio Legal Information Cent |others=Human Rights Law Network (New Delhi, India), Nanda Talukdar Foundation (Gauhati, India) |year=2009 |isbn=978-81-89479-51-0 |pages=57 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Institute for Conflict Management (New Delhi |first=India) |date=1999 |title=Faultlines |journal=Faultlines |language=English |volume=8-11 |pages=29 |issn=0972-1290 |via=WorldCat}}

He is a former president of Samaj Bikash Manch a Social Organisation as well as founding president of Nabadeep Samay Bikash Manch an NGO established by Bharatiya Janata Party.[http://www.assamassembly.nic.in/kushal-dowari.html MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (M.L.A.), ASSAM]