The first to be elected as the president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee among the Mishings in 1972 and again in 1980.
During his life, his selfless devotion to the people of Assam made him widely popular.
His daughter Shakuntala Gamlin is a 1984-batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre IAS officer.
She is the first lady IAS from North East to reach a Secretary level post in central ministry.
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