Aparajita Goppi

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Aparajita Goppi is an Indian politician. In 2013 she became 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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References

  1. ↑ All India Forward Block. Central Committee - She was unanimously elected in the 17th Party Congress Archived April 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Cracks show up in Left Front, Bloc raises pitch". Indian Express. 6 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  3. ↑ Jasodhara Bagchi; Sarmistha Dutta Gupta (24 January 2005). The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000: The Challenge Ahead. SAGE Publications. p. 89. ISBN   978-0-7619-3242-0.
  4. ↑ All India Agragami Mahila Samity. Central Committee Archived April 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies. Institute of Historical Studies. 2004. p. 125.
  6. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1972 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal
  7. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1977 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal
  8. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1982 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal
  9. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal
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