Aparajita Goppi

Aparajita Goppi is an Indian politician. As of 2013 she was a Central Committee member of the All India Forward Bloc.[1] As of 2009 she was a secretariat member of the party in West Bengal.[2] As of 2000 she was the highest-ranking woman in the party in the state.[3] She is the chairwoman of the All India Agragami Mahila Samity, the women's wing of the party.[4] She was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal between 1977 and 1991.

As a student at Suniti Academy in Cooch Behar she led students in struggle for the right to observe Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birthday.[5]

Goppi contested the 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election from the Cooch Behar North seat. She finished in second place with 19,846 votes (40.07%).[6] She contested and won the same seat in the 1977 assembly election. She obtained 32,792 votes (63.07%).[7] Goppi retained the Cooch Behar North seat in 1982, getting 46,810 votes (57.15%), and in the 1987 election, obtaining 49,172 votes (54.74%).[8][9]

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