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Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi passed away on Monday after battling multi-organ dysfunction. He was 84.(Express archive photo)
Three-time chief minister of Assam, Gogoi had a political career spanning over 50 years, during which he held varied positions within the Congress party, the central government and in the Assam state administration. In Pic: (From left) S Ramadurai, Tarun Gogoi and Jairam Ramesh in Guwahati (Express archive photo)
Gogoi was diagnosed with Covid-19 in August. He later battled post-Covid complications. (Express archive photo by R K Dayal)
In the days before he was diagnosed with Covid-19, Gogoi was at the forefront of the Congress initiative to form a ‘Grand Alliance’, comprising all the Opposition parties, for the 2021 Assam Assembly polls. In Pic: (From left) Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Jairam Ramesh, Tarun Gogoi and Mani Shankar Aiyar at an event in Guwahati. (Express archive photo)
Gogoi led the Congress to a record three consecutive electoral victories in Assam in 2001, 2006 and 2011, and was chief minister for 15 years (2001-2016), thus becoming the longest-serving CM of the state. In Pic: Gogoi arrives to present the annual budget in the Assembly. (Express archive photo)
In the 2016 Assembly elections in Assam, though the BJP along with its allies defeated the Congress, Gogoi managed to win from Titabar Assembly constituency. In Pic: S Gopalan, then secretary, Ministry of Labour, Tarun Gogoi, then Minister for Food Processing and Dr Surinder Kapur, then Chairman CII Industrial Relations committee in New Delhi. (Express archive photo)
Leaders across the political spectrum, including PM Narendra Modi and President Kovind, condoled the demise of the Congress stalwart. In Pic: Tarun Gogoi with Narendra Modi during an event in New Delhi in 2013. (Express photo: Prem Nath Pandey)
Gogoi was also a six-time parliamentarian and served as Union minister twice. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna)
Tarun Gogoi also served as the joint secretary of All India congress Committee in 1976 and president of Assam’s Pradesh Congress Committee from 1986-91. (Express archive)
Tarun Gogoi with Himanta Biswa Sarma. (Express archive)
