Aparajita Goppi (1931 – 28 December 2020) was an Indian politician. In 2013 she became a Central Committee member of the

All India Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a Left-wing nationalism, left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a Political faction, faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, and was strongest ...

. She was a secretariat member of the party in

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and in the early 2000s, Goppi was the highest ranking member of the All India Forward Bloc in West Bengal. She was the chairwoman of the All India Agragami Mahila Samity, the women's wing of the party. Goppi was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal between 1977 and 1991. Goppi was a colleague of Askok Ghosh. As a student at Suniti Academy in

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, she led students in struggle for the right to observe Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birthday. 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%). She contested and won the same seat in the 1977 assembly election. She obtained 32,792 votes (63.07%). 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%). Goppi died on December 28, 2020, due to complications with Covid-19.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goppi, Aparajita All India Forward Bloc politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) West Bengal MLAs 1977–1982 Women members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Living people 20th-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian people West Bengal MLAs 1982–1987 West Bengal MLAs 1987–1991 People from Cooch Behar district