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	'''Phani Bora''' (1923 – 28 July 2004) was an Indian politician.<ref name="h">''The Hindu''. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040820025021/http://www.hindu.com/2004/07/31/stories/2004073106101200.htm Phani Bora dead]''</ref>		'''Phani Bora''' (21 August 1923 – 29 July 2004) was an Indian politician.<ref name="h">''The Hindu''. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040820025021/http://www.hindu.com/2004/07/31/stories/2004073106101200.htm Phani Bora dead]''</ref>

	Bora became active in the struggle for Indian independence in the early 1930s. He joined the Assam Students Federation. In 1941 he set up the [[Nagaon district]] branch of the ASF. He took part in the 1942 [[Quit India movement]]. Later the same year he joined the [[Communist Party of India]]. In the following year he was included in the Assam Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. In 1945 he became general secretary of the ~~Assam~~ Students Federation.<ref name="h"/>		Bora became active in the struggle for Indian independence in the early 1930s. He joined the Assam Students Federation. In 1941 he set up the [[Nagaon district]] branch of the ASF. He took part in the 1942 [[Quit India movement]]. Later the same year he joined the [[Communist Party of India]]. In the following year he was included in the Assam Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. In 1945 he became general secretary of the [[All India Students' Federation]].<ref name="h"/>

	In 1951 Biresh Mishra, branded for having promoted the 'left adventurist line', was removed from his post as secretary of the Assam Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. Bora was unanimously elected as the new secretary, at a clandestine meeting of the Assam Provincial Committee in [[Calcutta]].<ref name="m40"/><ref name="n">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi0sAAAAIAAJ North-East Quarterly]'', Vol. 2. Dibrugarh University, 1984. p. 9</ref> Bora had opposed the [[B.T. Ranadive]] line.<ref name="m40"/> Bora continued to hold the post as Assam party secretary for 24 years.<ref name="n"/> In 1951 he contested the Nowgong Raha seat for the Assam Legislative Assembly, being the sole Communist Party candidate in the fray (Nowgong Raha was a two-member constituency). Bora finished in third place, with 9,527 votes.<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_ASSAM.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref>		In 1951 Biresh Mishra, branded for having promoted the 'left adventurist line', was removed from his post as secretary of the Assam Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. Bora was unanimously elected as the new secretary, at a clandestine meeting of the Assam Provincial Committee in [[Calcutta]].<ref name="m40"/><ref name="n">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi0sAAAAIAAJ North-East Quarterly]'', Vol. 2. Dibrugarh University, 1984. p. 9</ref> Bora had opposed the [[B.T. Ranadive]] line.<ref name="m40"/> Bora continued to hold the post as Assam party secretary for 24 years.<ref name="n"/> In 1951 he contested the Nowgong Raha seat for the Assam Legislative Assembly, being the sole Communist Party candidate in the fray (Nowgong Raha was a two-member constituency). Bora finished in third place, with 9,527 votes.<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_ASSAM.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref>

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	'''Phani Bora''' (1923 – 28 July 2004) was an Indian politician.<ref name="h">''The Hindu''. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040820025021/http://www.hindu.com/2004/07/31/stories/2004073106101200.htm Phani Bora dead]''</ref>		'''Phani Bora''' (1923 – 28 July 2004) was an Indian politician.<ref name="h">''The Hindu''. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040820025021/http://www.hindu.com/2004/07/31/stories/2004073106101200.htm Phani Bora dead]''</ref>

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'''Phani Bora''' (1923 – 28 July 2004) was an Indian politician.<ref name="h">''The Hindu''. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040820025021/http://www.hindu.com/2004/07/31/stories/2004073106101200.htm Phani Bora dead]''</ref>

Bora became active in the struggle for Indian independence in the early 1930s. He joined the Assam Students Federation. In 1941 he set up the [[Nagaon district]] branch of the ASF. He took part in the 1942 [[Quit India movement]]. Later the same year he joined the [[Communist Party of India]]. In the following year he was included in the Assam Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. In 1945 he became general secretary of the Assam Students Federation.<ref name="h"/>

In 1951 Biresh Mishra, branded for having promoted the 'left adventurist line', was removed from his post as secretary of the Assam Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. Bora was unanimously elected as the new secretary, at a clandestine meeting of the Assam Provincial Committee in [[Calcutta]].<ref name="m40"/><ref name="n">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi0sAAAAIAAJ North-East Quarterly]'', Vol. 2. Dibrugarh University, 1984. p. 9</ref> Bora had opposed the [[B.T. Ranadive]] line.<ref name="m40"/> Bora continued to hold the post as Assam party secretary for 24 years.<ref name="n"/> In 1951 he contested the Nowgong Raha seat for the Assam Legislative Assembly, being the sole Communist Party candidate in the fray (Nowgong Raha was a two-member constituency). Bora finished in third place, with 9,527 votes.<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_ASSAM.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref>

Bora was elected to the [[Central Committee]] of the Communist Party of India in 1953.<ref>Overstreet, Gene D., and Marshall Windmiller. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PAFBW743Bi4C&pg=PA360 Communism in India]''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. p. 360</ref> When the Central Committee was replaced with a National Council at the 1958 extraordinary party conference in [[Amritsar]], Bora was elected to the new body as well.<ref>Overstreet, Gene D., and Marshall Windmiller. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PAFBW743Bi4C&pg=PA542 Communism in India]''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. pp. 540, 542</ref>

Bora contested the 1957 Assam Legislative Assembly election, finish in third place in the [[Nagaon|Nowgong]] (SC) constituency with 25,377 votes
(26.79%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Assam_1957.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref> In 1959 Bora was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly, in a bye-election in the Nowgong constituency.<ref name="m40">Sen Gupta, Susmita. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=I0Knt3WOIrQC&pg=PA40 Radical Politics in Meghalaya: Problems and Prospects]''. Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, 2009. pp. 39-40</ref> He lost the Nowgong seat in the 1962 election, finishing in second place with 9,586 votes (27.02%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Assam_1962.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref> In the 1967 election he was able to recapture the Nowgong seat, with 13,370 votes (53.42%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20Assam%201967.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref> He lost the Nowgong seat in the 1972 election, finishing in second place with 12,145 votes (39.18%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/Statistical%20Report%20Assam%201972.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref>

In 1974 Bora was included in the organisational department of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of India. He was put in-charge of organising the party units in [[North-East India]].<ref name="n"/> In the 1978 election, he finished in fourth place in Nowgong with 5,251 votes (13.02)%.<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1978/StatisticalReportAssam78.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1978 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref>

Phani Bora died on 28 July 2004. His body was cremated at Nabagraha crematorium. Assam Chief Minister [[Tarun Gogoi]] and Union Minister of State for Defence [[B.K. Handique]] condoled his death. The Assam Legislative Assembly observed two-minutes of silence in his honour.<ref name="h"/>

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