Chabilal Upadhyaya^[1] (12 May 1882 - 24 January 1980), was the first (selected) president of the Assam Pradesh Congress committee.^[2] In 1919 Upadhyaya's family settled at Mazgaon (Gangmouthan), Behali Tehsil in present day Biswanath district of Assam.^[3]

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Chabilal Upadhyaya,^[4] popularly known as Chabilal Babu was a prominent leader of the Indian Freedom Movement from Assam.Upadhyaya joined the war of independence. On April 18, 1921, a meeting chaired by Upadhyaya was held in jorhat where the Assam Association was merged with Indian National Congress to form Assam Pradesh Congress Committee.^[5] He became the first (selected) president of the Assam Pradesh Congress committee.^[6] He was arrested by the British for joining the Congress and paid a jail term of six months by joining the Non-Cooperation movement under Gandhiji's leadership.

Upadhyaya played an important role in establishing various local schools in Gohpur Sub-division.^[7] Under his leadership, thirty thousand Nepali speaking people protested against Jinnah's proposal at the call of All India Gorkha League.^{[citation needed]}

Now, Government of Assam announced that an engineering college^[8] will be established in Behali, Assam^[9] which will be named after Chabilal Upadhyaya.

• Assam Pradesh Congress Committee
• Kuladhar Chaliha
• Indian National Congress
• Biswanath District