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Kamakhya Prasad Tripathy

Indian Politician

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Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ131725520 ↗
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Kamakhya Prasad Tripathy (d. 1978) was an Indian politician, educator and independence activist. He was a member of 1st Lok Sabha from Darrang Lok Sabha constituency, Finance Minister of Assam under Chief Ministers Bimala Prasad Chaliha,Mahendra Mohan Choudhry and 3 times former member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Biswanath Assembly constituency. He was also the founding Principal of Darrang College.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kamakhya Prasad Tripathy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.