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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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