Pradan Baruah

Pradan Baruah is an Indian politician who is member of Parliament and elected to 16th Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur seat since November 2016. He won the by-election in November 2016, on a seat vacated by Sarbananda Sonowal, who had resigned in May 2016 after becoming the Chief Minister of Assam. Baruah was earlier the member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Dhemaji Assembly constituency in Dhemaji district.
He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. Previously, Baruah was member of Indian National Congress but defected from Congress before the assembly election along with Himanta Biswa Sarma in 2016.