Banwarilal Purohit
| Banwarilal Purohit | |
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| Governor of Assam | |
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Assumed office 22 August 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Padmanabha Acharya |
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Governor of Meghalaya Additional Charge |
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Assumed office 27 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | V. Shanmuganathan |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Banwarilal Purohit (Assamese: বানৱাৰীলাল পুৰোহিত) (born April 16, 1940) is an Indian politician from Vidarbha region. He was appointed as Governor of Assam State by President of India on 17 August 2016. He was a Member of Parliament from the Nagpur (Lok Sabha constituency) three times, twice as an Indian National Congress member, once as a BJP member.
He first joined the All India Forward Bloc and later Congress. After Indira Gandhi split Congress Party and formed Congress (Indira), Purohit was elected as MLA from Nagpur East constituency in 1978, contesting as member of Congress(I), and he was re-elected in 1980 from Nagpur South and became a Minister of State for Urban Development, Slum Improvement and Housingin in 1982.
In 1984, he was elected to the 8th Lok Sabha as member of Congress Party. He was re-elected in 1989 on Congress ticket.
Later he joined Bharatiya Janata Party when it launched a movement to build Ram Temple in Ayodhya and contested Lok Sabha elections in 1991 as the party's candidate. But he lost to Datta Meghe of Indian National Congress. In 1996, he was elected to 11th Lok Sabha as BJP's candidate.
In 1999, he quit the Bharatiya Janata Party to join the Indian National Congress after he developed serious differences with Pramod Mahajan. He contested the Lok Sabha elections from Ramtek in 1999 but lost.
In 2003, he launched his own party called Vidarbha Rajya Party and contested the Lok Sabha elections from Nagpur in 2004.
In 2009 he again contested on BJP's ticket but lost the election to Vilas Muttemwar of Indian National Congress.
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