24-585: Sarbananda Sonowal (IPA: xɔɹbanɔndɔ xʊnʊwal; born 31 October 1962) is an Indian politician who has served as Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways since 2021. He also has been the Member of the Rajya Sabha representing Assam since 2021 and also a member of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs since 2021. He previously served as the 14th Chief Minister of Assam from 2016 to 2021 and as
48-538: A member of Assam Legislative Assembly for Majuli from 2016 to 2021 and for Moran from 2001 to 2004. Sonowal earlier served as the Assam state unit President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2012 to 2014 and again from 2015 to 2016. He also served as the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of India, from 2014 to 2016 and the Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Skill Development from 2014 to 2014 and
72-744: Is affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He became president of the Delhi unit of the BJP in February 2013. He was elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2014. He is the former Delhi University Students' Union president and an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce . He has been the Member of Parliament for the 11th, 12th and 13th Lok Sabha representing the Sadar and Chandni Chowk constituencies of Delhi. He also served as
96-694: Is organised by the State Government-owned Jyoti Chitraban (Film Studio) Society in association with the Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Regional Government Film and Television Institute . The first edition was held in October 2018, the second in October-November 2019. The 3rd edition has been postponed owing to the present COVID-19 pandemic to early 2021. Faced with the problem of massive migration from Bangladesh into Assam ,
120-748: The University of Delhi . He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and was jailed during Emergency in India . After his release from jail, Goel became president of Delhi University Students' Union in 1977 as a candidate of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad . He married Preeti Goel, a professor at the University of Delhi, on 8 March 1985. The couple have a son and a daughter. Goel
144-1044: The Government of India under the Modi Government at the center. He was selected as the CM candidate of BJP for the 2016 Assam Assembly Election . On 19 May 2016, Sarbananda Sonowal won the Assembly Election from Majuli Constituency, and he became Chief Minister of Assam, the first CM of the state from Bharatiya Janata Party . In 2021 he was re-elected to Assam Vidhan Sabha from Majuli. He resigned as Chief Minister and proposed Himanta Biswa Sarma's name as his successor. He became Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Minister of AYUSH in Second Modi ministry when cabinet overhaul happened. Sarbananda Sonowal resigned from all executive posts within AGP and left
168-641: The IMDT Act operates only in Assam, the Foreigners Act (1946) applies to the rest of the country. It is applicable to those Bangladeshi nationals who settled in Assam on or after 25 March 1971. Under the Act, the onus of proving the citizenship of a suspected illegal alien rests on the complainant, often the police. On the other hand, according to the provisions of the Foreigners Act, the onus lies with
192-515: The Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports from 5 July 2016 to 3 September 2017. In his tenure, a dedicated portal was launched to search young, talented people in sports who otherwise go unnoticed. The National Talent Search Portal connects potential sportsperson to the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centres for training and better guidance. He became the minister of state for Parliamentary Affairs on 3 September 2017. Under
216-562: The Union Minister of State of Labour, Parliamentary Affairs, Statistics & Programme Implementation and Youth Affairs & Sports in the National Democratic Alliance (India) government until 2004. Vijay Goel was born to former Delhi Vidhan Sabha Speaker and BJP member Charti Lal Goel and Basanti Devi on 4 January 1954. He has an M.Com. degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce and a LL.B. degree from
240-605: The Vajpayee Government. Goel played an instrumental role in winning the bid to host 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Later, he was among the first few people to bring out financial irregularities by officials of the Games' Organising Committee . Goel had been promoted as the BJP's candidate for Chief Minister in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election until six weeks prior to voting day. According to some source,
264-401: The banner of Lok Abhiyan , a socio-cultural organisation, Goel initiated protests against state-sponsored lotteries in India in 1993. He led a campaign supported by over 120 MPs. The lottery was banned in India on 7 July 1998. Vijay Goel established The Toy Bank , a not for profit organisation, in 1987 that collects toys from donors, refurbishes/renews them and redistributes the toys amongst
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#1732790123186288-541: The country have no legal right of any kind to remain in India and they are liable to be deported." Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways is the Indian ministry responsible for formulation and administration of the rules, regulations and laws relating to ports, shipping and waterways. The minister is Sarbananda Sonowal . In 1999, the Ministry of Surface Transport
312-400: The electoral threat posed by the recently formed Aam Aadmi Party caused him to be replaced by Harsh Vardhan . Other sources say that he met with opposition from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh , an organisation that is closely associated with the BJP and who were unhappy with how he was running the party in the state. He was elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2014. He remained
336-756: The government tried to put up legislation in place to detect and deport foreign nationals. Eventually, the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act, 1983 (IMDT Act) came into being following the Assam Accord signed between the Government of India and the All Assam Students Union (AASU) to end the decade-long anti-foreigner agitation. The IMDT Act is an instrument passed by Indian Parliament to detect illegal immigrants (from Bangladesh) and expel them from Assam. While
360-969: The member of the Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur from 2014 to 2016 and from Dibrugarh from 2004 to 2009. He was also the member of the Asom Gana Parishad from 2001 to 2011. Sarbananda Sonowal was born on 31 October 1962 to an Assamese Hindu Sonowal family in Muluk Gaon located in the Dibrugarh district of Assam to Jibeswar Sonowal (father) and Dineswari Sonowal (mother) . Sonowal did his schooling at Don Bosco High School, Dibrugarh. He completed his B.A.(Hons) in English from Dibrugarh Hanumanbax Surajmall Kanoi College under Dibrugarh University and his LLB form Dibrugarh University and B.C.J from Gauhati University . Sarbananda Sonowal
384-478: The party, due to dissatisfaction with and amongst the senior leadership of the party who were trying to forge an alliance with a party that was against the scrapping of the controversial IMDT Act. On 8 February 2011, Sonowal joined BJP in the presence of the then BJP National President Nitin Gadkari and senior leaders like Varun Gandhi , Vijay Goel , Bijoya Chakravarty and state BJP president Ranjit Dutta . He
408-581: The person suspected to be an alien. Sonowal took the issue of Bangladeshi infiltration to the Supreme Court . By its judgement dated 12 July 2005, the court struck down the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act, 1983 , as unconstitutional and termed Bangladeshi infiltration an "external aggression" and directed that "the Bangladesh nationals who have illegally crossed the border and have trespassed into Assam or are living in other parts of
432-625: The underprivileged children in Delhi . The Toy Bank was co-founded by his daughter Vidyun Goel . Goel has been actively involved in heritage conservation. As a Lok Sabha representative from Chandni Chowk , Goel hosted a two-day cultural festival "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" in 1998 to get the soul back into the 350-year-old city of Shahjahanabad and turn Chandni Chowk into a major tourist attraction in Delhi. For this, among other measures, electricity polls were rooted out, pavements were cleared of encroachments, and shop shutters were painted to spruce up
456-625: Was again formed by bifurcating the Ministry Of Shipping, Road Transport, and Highways Further, in 2020 the Ministry of Shipping was renamed as Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. Vijay Goel (politician) Vijay Goel (born 4 January 1954) is an Indian politician and a former Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Statistic and Implementation in the NDA government. A former Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Goel
480-406: Was appointed president of BJP's Assam Unit in 2012 and is also a member of the party's National Executive. In the 2014 general election for Lok Sabha he was appointed to head Assam State's Lok Sabha Elections by BJP, and in the same year he was also elected as Member of Parliament , 16th Lok Sabha, from Lakhimpur Constituency. He was then appointed as Union Minister of State-Independent Charge, of
504-561: Was immediately appointed as a member of the BJP National Executive and later on the State Spokesperson of the BJP unit, prior to his current assignment to head the state as the new president. On 28 January 2016, BJP Parliamentary Board announced Sarbananda Sonowal as BJP Chief Ministerial candidate of Assam. He is not married. The annual Guwahati International Film Festival was started during his tenure. It
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#1732790123186528-637: Was re-organized into two departments, namely the Department of Shipping and the Department of Road Transport and Highways. In 2000, the Ministry of Surface Transport was bifurcated into two Ministries namely the Ministry of Surface Transport and Highways and the Ministry of Shipping. In 2004, The Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Road Transport were again merged and renamed as Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways. There are two Department viz. Department of Shipping and Department of Road Transport & Highways. In 2009, The Ministry of Shipping
552-437: Was the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) treasurer in 1974–1975. He exposed corruption concerning fake certificates that was then operating at the university. Goel elected to 11th Lok Sabha from Sadar and to 12th and 13th Lok Sabha from Chandni Chowk . He served as Minister of State for Labour , Parliamentary Affairs , Statistics & Programme Implementation and Youth Affairs & Sports till 2004 in
576-597: Was the President of Assam's oldest student body, the All Assam Students Union (AASU) from 1992 to 1999. After that, he became a member of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). In 2001, he was elected as the MLA from Moran constituency of Assam . In 2004, he became a Lok Sabha member representing the Dibrugarh constituency. He lost Lok Sabha election from Dibrugarh in 2009. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2011. He
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