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Wazed Ali Choudhury

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ107143814 ↗
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Wazed Ali Choudhury (born 1 July 1959) is an Indian politician and businessman. He served as the member of the Assam Legislative Assembly representing Salmara South constituency since 2016, and from 1996 to 2006, as a member of the Indian National Congress and as the Minister of State (Independent Charge), Government of Assam in the First Tarun Gogoi ministry from 2002 to 2006.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2016, 1996, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-07-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wazed, Choudhury and Open-knowledge.
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“Wazed Ali Choudhury” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wazed, Choudhury and Open-knowledge provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107143814. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959, 2016, 1996 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wazed Ali Choudhury” 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.