Mihir Goswami is an Indian politician from the state of West Bengal. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2001 and 2016–2021, from the Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency. He was the chairman of NBSTC (North Bengal State Transport Corporation).[1][2] He was a member of Trinamool Congress party until 2020, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. He currently represents the Natabari.
Mihir Goswami | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 10 May 2021 | |
| Governor | Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan (additional charge) C. V. Ananda Bose |
| Leader | Suvendu Adhikari |
| Preceded by | Nepal Mahata |
| Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2 May 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Rabindra Nath Ghosh |
| Constituency | Natabari |
| In office 1996–2001, 2016 – 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Akshay Thakur |
| Succeeded by | Nikhil Ranjan Dey |
| Constituency | Cooch Behar Dakshin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 February 1954 Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (2020–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Trinamool Congress (1998–2020) Indian National Congress (1984–1998) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Political career
He was District Youth Congress President in undivided Congress (When Mamata Banerjee State Youth Congress President). He won the Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) seat in 1996 as an Indian National Congress candidate. Later, he joined the Trinamool Congress in 1998. Later, he won the same seat again in the 2016 (Cooch Behar Dakshin) West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[3]
He resigned from the TMC and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 27 November 2020, having resigned his offices on 31 October.[4] He was elected from the Natabari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) constituency in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a BJP candidate.