Siddhartha Bhattacharyya was born on June 10, 1961.
He is the son of eminent politician of Assam Late Gauri Shankar Bhattacharya.
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya had his initial schooling at Ulubari Prasanna Vidyapeeth and Cotton Collegiate HS School.
He was awarded an all India Merit Scholarship by the Govt of India to study at Ramkrishna Mission. Vidyapeeth at Purulia in West Bengal from where he passed his Matriculation.
He had his college education at Cotton College, Guwahati and graduated with Honours in Economics in 1983.
He got his Post Graduate degree in Economics from Gauhati University in the year 1985.
He obtained law degree from Gauhati University in the year 1989.
He joined the Legal Profession as an Advocate in the year 1992.
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is considered as an authority of Military and Para-Military law and has the distinction of conducting many Court-Martials as a Counsel.
He was elected as Secretary of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association in 2008.
He was an active member of the Adhibakta Parishad Assam Pradesh.
He was Vice-President of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association.
He is a trained Mountaineer and completed the Advanced Mountaineering Course conducted by Western Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Manali, in the year 1983.
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya has very extensive experience in trekking in the North Eastern Region and in the Eastern Himalayas.
He had climbed the Dzongri Peak in Sikkim Himalayas.
He had climbed the Ladakhi Peak (height 21,000 ft) in Himachal Pradesh.
He had climbed the White Needle Peak (height 23000 ft) in Zaskar Range of Himalayas in Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir.
He is associated with Assam Mountaineering Association as an Executive Member since 1982.
He was the President of Gauhati University Adventurous Sports Forum in the years 1983-85.
He was associated with All Assam Judo Association at the time of its inception.
He was the Vice- President and Working President of Assam Mountaineering Association.
He was an avid debator and he has been adjudged as Best Debator on number of occasions in college and University days.
He was among one of the first ever batch of Assamese News Readers for Guwahati Doordarshan Kendra, Guwahati, when it started its telecast in 1986
He is a Life member of Assam Sahitya Sabha, the apex literary body of Assam
He had joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 1995 and was party President of Assam unit in 2014 but was replaced by Sarbananda Sonowal ahead of Assam Legislative Assembly election in 2016.
He is a National Spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party for the North Eastern region.
Bhattacharyya was defeated from Gauhati East constituency seat in Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2011 with a margin of 3,997 votes by Robin Bordoloi of Congress.
But, he won Gauhati East constituency in Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2016 by defeating Bobeeta Sharma of Congress by a record margin of 96,637 votes.
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is maternal uncle of Indian journalist Arnab Goswami.
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