Soumendra Nath, better known as Gopal Mookherjee, is the son of Satyabrata (Julu) Mookherjee, the BJP leader who was a minister in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet. Mookherjee was born on 8 May 1932 in Sylhet in Assam (now Bangladesh), he was educated at Calcutta University. He did his Bar-at-law from The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn[2] and also pursued further studies at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
He was an Additional Solicitor General of India before being elected, in 1999, to the 13th Lok Sabha from Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party
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