Urkhao Gwra Brahma
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Urkhao Gwra Brahma (born 1 July 1963) is an Indian politician, poet, and the leader of the United People's Party, Liberal (UPPL). He has been serving as the Minister for Handloom, Textile & Sericulture, Soil Conservation, and Welfare of Bodoland Department in the Government of Assam since 2021. Representing the 63 No. Chapaguri constituency in the Assam Legislative Assembly since 2021, he has played a significant role in the political and cultural landscape of Assam.
Previously, he was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2008 as an Independent candidate. Alongside his political journey, he is deeply involved in literature and was honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 for his poetry collection उदांनिफ्राय गिदिंबोफिन्नानै (Return from Freedom). In 2015, he founded the UPPL and became its President.
His contributions to Bodo literature have been widely recognized, and on 1st March 2025, he was honored with the prestigious विशिष्ट क्षेत्रीय भाषा सम्मान (बिनेश्वर ब्रह्म शिखर सम्मान) at the BPA Foundation & India Netbooks Sahityakar Sammanotsav 2025 in New Delhi.
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- Tribal people from Assam
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- Bodo people
- Living people
- People from Kokrajhar district
- National Democratic Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election
- Independent politicians from Assam
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bodo
- United People's Party Liberal politicians
- Assam MLAs 2021–2026
- 1964 births
- State cabinet ministers of Assam