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]

References

  1. ↑ All India Forward Bloc. Central Committee - Unanimously elected in the 17th Party Congress Archived April 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Indian Express. Cracks show up in Left Front, Bloc raises pitch Archived April 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  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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