Sarbananda Sonowal: LL.B. from GU Law College, Guwahati University
Sarbananda Sonowal is presently the Minister of State for Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and sports (Independent Charge) in Narendra Modi government.
He is a BJP MP from Lakhimpur constituency in Assam.
Sonowal was earlier with Congress and he joined BJP in 2011 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 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.