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'''Salien Medhi''' (d. 2016) was an [[India]]n lawyer and politician, belonging to the [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]].<ref name=a/><ref name="Saikia2015">{{cite book|author=Arupjyoti Saikia|title=A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcNcCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT451|date=12 August 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-32559-8|page=451}}</ref> He was a state legislator in [[Assam]] 1967-1972.<br />
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==Early career==<br />
Medhi entered the Guwahati High Court in 1962.<ref name=a>''Assam Tribune''. ''[http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jul1116/at053 Leftist leader Sailen Medhi passes away]''</ref> His legal career developed rapidly thereafter. He became a prominent member of the Guwahati High Court Bar Association.<ref name=a/> As a RCPI leader he was closely linked to Kalaguru [[Bishnu Prasad Rabha]].<ref name=a/> Medhi helped Rabha during the latter's underground days.<ref name=a/><br />
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==Legislator==<br />
Medhi was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from the Jalukbari constituency in the 1967 election.<ref name=a/> He got 14,384 votes (61.60%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20Assam%201967.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref> Medhi lost the Jalukbari seat in the 1972 Assam Legislative Assembly election. He finished in second place with 5,764 votes (25.09%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/Statistical%20Report%20Assam%201972.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ASSAM]''</ref><br />
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==Later years==<br />
At different occasions he represented the Bar Association at meetings overseas.<ref name=a/> During his trips abroad he met with personalities such as [[Fidel Castro]] and [[Nelson Mandela]].<ref name=a/><br />
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During his later years, Medhi was an active participant in the meetings of the Octogenarians' Club of Guwahati.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Assam Tribune | url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/mdetails.asp?id=jul1416/city052 | title=Elders mourn Sailen Medhi’s death | date=14 July 2016 | accessdate=8 November 2019 }}</ref> Salien Medhi died on 10 July 2016 at the age of 87.<ref name=a/><br />
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