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 Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 4 Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency covers C ...

constituency. He was the chairman of NBSTC (

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). He was a member of

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party until 2020, when he joined the

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. 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

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candidate. Later, he joined the

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in 1998. Later, he won the same seat again in the

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in 2016 for the 294 seats (out of 295 seats) of the '' Vidhan Sabha'' (Vidhān Sabhā) in the state of West Bengal in India. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thu ...

. 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) Natabari Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 8 Natabari Assembly constituency covers Deoanhat, Dauaguri, Guria ...

constituency in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a BJP candidate.

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