Kabindra Purkayastha
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Kabindra Purkayastha is a former union minister of state for India. He served as minister of state for communication in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam.
He was born in 1931 in Kamarkhal in Sylhet district now in Bangladesh and studied MA at Gauhati University.
He was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1991 and then in 1998 from Silchar in Assam.