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Pabitra Margherita is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as a Minister of State for External Affairs and also as a Minister of State for Textiles in the Modi Government's third term.
Pabitra Margherita | |
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Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Textiles | |
Assumed office 11 June 2024 | |
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
Assumed office 31 March 2022 | |
Preceded by | Ranee Narah, INC |
Constituency | Assam |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 October 1974 Margherita, Assam |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Spouse | Gayatri Mahanta |
Children | 3 |
Residence | Guwahati |
Alma mater | Margherita College Jagannath Barooah College Assam Textile Institute |
Margherita is a Member of Parliament (since March 2022), representing Assam in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[1][2] He joined politics in 2014 and became an active member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is serving as a Spokesperson of Assam BJP[3] since 2014. He also served as Prabhari of Social Media Cell, Assam BJP and Zila Prabhari of Kamrup (North) District BJP. He also served as Chairman of Jyoti Chitraban,[4] Govt. of Assam from 2017 to 2021. He also served as Member Secretary[5] of State Level Advisory Committee for Students and Youth Welfare, Govt. of Assam[6] from November 2021 to March 2022. Besides this he used to be an actor with his first film Tumi Mur Mathu Mur with co-star and director Zubeen Garg. His other films like Junbai, Hero and Mon Jaai, which is one of his biggest hit films of all time.
Currently he is a member of Consultative Committee of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.[7] as well as he is serving as Political Secretary to Chief Minister of Assam. Pabitra Margherita took oath as cabinet minister[8] of states in Third Modi Ministry. He is Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles.
He was the founder Chief Editor of the monthly Maya from 1998 to 2002. He also served as founder chief editor of another Assamese cultural monthly SaReGaMa from 2002 to 2005.[citation needed]
Year | Film | Roles | Director | Language(s) |
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2000 | Tumi Mor Matho Mor | Arunabh | Zubeen Garg | Assamese |
2005 | Junbai | Rajesh Bhuyan | Assamese | |
2006 | Hero | Pabitra Gogoi | Rajesh Bhuyan | Bengali |
2008 | Mon Jaai | Nayan | M. Maniram | Assamese |
Year | Film(s) | Director | Music Director |
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2004 | Dinabandhu | Munin Barua | Zubeen Garg |
2005 | Junbai | Rajesh Bhuyan | Manas Robin |
2006 | Junbai Dwitiya | Rajesh Bhuyan | Manas Robin |
Hero | Rajesh Bhuyan | Manas Robin |
Year | Album(s) | Artist(s) |
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2001 | Hiyamon | Zubeen Garg, Babita Sharma |
2003 | Sinaki Mon | Zubeen Garg |
2004 | Lajuki Mon | Subasana Dutta |
Jantra | Zubeen Garg | |
2005 | Sinaki Xur | Zubeen Garg |
2006 | It's All About Love | Sagarika |
It's Me | Anaida | |
Mukha | Zubeen Garg | |
2008 | Ponkhi | Zubeen Garg, Ponkhi, Bijoy Kashyap |
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