Ripun Bora

Ripun Bora 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. Bora was elected president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee in 2016, and resigned following the party's defeat in the 2021 elections. He resigned from the Indian National Congress in 2022, and was elected president of the Assam Trinamool Congress. He joined the Indian National Congress again in 2024.
On 3 June, 2008, Bora was arrested in Delhi for allegedly offering a bribe of Rs 10 lakhs to a CBI official, who was investigating the unresolved killing of Daniel Topno in September 2000. In 2012, he was acquitted of the bribery charge, and in 2014, the Kamrup Metro Session Court discharged him from the case completely.