Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha

Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha is an Indian politician from Assam currently affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is a former member of the Indian National Congress (INC), where he served as the deputy chief whip of Congress Legislative Party in Assam. He was elected as MLA of Karimganj North (Vidhan Sabha constituency) for the first time in 2011, defeating the four-time BJP MLA Mission Ranjan Das, ending the streak of a lack of success for Congress in North Karimganj after 25 years. He was re elected in 2016.

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