Mihir Goswami is an

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politician from the state of

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. He was a member of the

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from 1996–2001 and 2016–2021, from the Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency. He was the chairman of NBSTC (

North Bengal State Transport Corporation North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) is a state government run transport corporation in West Bengal, India. It plies buses mainly in North Bengal but operates services to other parts of West Bengal and neighboring states like Si ...

). He was a member of

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

party until 2020, when he joined the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Mod ...

. He currently represents the Natabari.

Political career

He was District Youth Congress President in undivided Congress (When Mamata Banerjee State Youth Congress President). He won the Cooch Behar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) seat in 1996 as an

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

candidate. Later, he joined the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998. Later, he won the same seat again in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He resigned from the TMC and joined the

on 27 November 2020, having resigned his offices on 31 October. He was elected from the Natabari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) constituency in the

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election for 292 of the 294 constituencies in West Bengal was held between 27 March to 29 April 2021 in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining constituencies was delayed to 30 September 2021. The ...

as a BJP candidate.

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* West Bengal MLAs 1996–2001 West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 Living people Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal 1954 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026 Deputy opposition leaders People from Cooch Behar district {{WestBengal-politician-stub