Dinesh Prasad Goala (1 July 1947 â 11 April 2014) was an Indian politician and a former MLA from Lakhipur, representing INC for 7 consecutive terms (1983âÂÂ2014) until his death. He also served as the Minister in-charge of the Power & Public Health Engineering Department of Assam from 1991 to 2006. Dinesh died at a hospital on 11 April 2014, aged 66. He had been suffering from cardiac health issues. He lived in Binnakandi Ghat.
Goala earned his MA in Political Science from Gauhati University in 1971.