Ram Narayan Goswami was an India

India

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n communist politician and peasant leader. Goswami was a Central Committee

Central Committee

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...

 member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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. He was a minister in the West Bengal

West Bengal

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 state government 1982-1983.

Goswami became active in the peasant movement in West Bengal, led various campaigns and was jailed for his political activism.

Goswami was elected general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha

All India Kisan Sabha (Ashoka Road)

All India Kisan Sabha , is the peasants front of Communist Party of India , and works for farmers rights and anti-feudal movement in India, which traces its origin to All India Kisan Sabha founded in 1936.It is sometimes referred to as All India Kisan Sabha , to distinguish it from the AIKS of...

 in 1989 and 1992. He had also been elected president of the West Bengal State Kisan Sabha two times.

He was elected twice to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 (1977 and 1982), and three times to the Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha

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(the upper house of the Indian parliament).