Sarbananda Sonowal Public Record

Chapter 06 · The Record

Parliament

A legislative archive: the Houses, terms and constituencies of record, and the documents that establish them.

Official member portrait of Sarbananda Sonowal against a teal background, wearing a white shirt and a white gamosa
Fig. 06.1Member portrait in the style used by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
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Parliamentary timeline

Terms in each House, in order. Lok Sabha numbers follow the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

  1. Lok Sabha 14th
    Term
    2004 – 2009
    Constituency
    Dibrugarh, Assam
    Party at election
    Asom Gana Parishad
  2. Lok Sabha 16th
    Term
    2014 – 2016
    Constituency
    Lakhimpur, Assam
    Note
    Also Union Minister of State (Independent Charge); left on becoming Chief Minister of Assam
  3. Rajya Sabha RS
    Term
    2021 – 2024
    State
    Assam — elected unopposed, 27 September 2021
    Note
    Seat vacated after election to the 18th Lok Sabha
  4. Lok Sabha 18th
    Term
    2024 –
    Constituency
    Dibrugarh, Assam
    Note
    Results declared 4 June 2024; sitting member
Lok Sabha member record (terms 14, 16, 18) · ANI, 27 Sep 2021 · Deccan Herald, June 2024
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Constituency record

Dibrugarh
2004 · 2024Lok Sabha constituency in Upper Assam, on the south bank of the Brahmaputra; his home district. Represented in the 14th and 18th Lok Sabha.
Lakhimpur
2014Lok Sabha constituency on the north bank of the Brahmaputra. Represented in the 16th Lok Sabha.
Assam
2021Rajya Sabha seat from the state, filled by election by the members of the Assam Legislative Assembly.

For Assembly constituencies (Moran and Majuli), see Assam Years.

Sarbananda Sonowal greets an audience with folded hands at a meeting, surrounded by party workers, under an Assamese-language banner
Fig. 06.2At an election campaign meeting. The Assamese-language banner describes a campaign meeting of the BJP and Asom Gana Parishad alliance and names the Duliajan Assembly segment.
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Sourced record

Petitions decided by the Supreme Court of India in which he was the petitioner. Summaries describe the Court's holdings only.

Case file I

Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India & Anr.

Decided
12 July 2005
Citation
(2005) 5 SCC 665
Petition
Writ Petition (Civil) 131 of 2000
Bench
R. C. Lahoti CJI, G. P. Mathur and P. K. Balasubramanyan JJ.

The Court held the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983, and the rules made under it in 1984, to be unconstitutional and struck them down.

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Case file II

Sarbananda Sonowal (II) v. Union of India

Decided
5 December 2006
Citation
(2007) 1 SCC 174
Petition
W.P. (C) 117 of 2006, with W.P. (C) 119 of 2006
Bench
S. B. Sinha and P. K. Balasubramanyan JJ.

The Court struck down the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2006, and the Foreigners (Tribunals for Assam) Order, 2006, and directed the Union Government to constitute sufficient tribunals within four months.

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Detailed records of questions, debates and committee memberships are maintained by the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats and can be consulted on the Parliament of India's digital platform, sansad.in. This archive does not reproduce figures for parliamentary activity that it has not verified.

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Document archive