Three women have represented the Guwahati seat in the Lok Sabha since the first post-Emergency election in 1977.
A former Bharatiya Janata Party leader believes she can still be a trendsetter — as the first woman from Congress to get a berth in Parliament from a seat associated with the largest urban centre in the Northeast.
Mira Borthakur Goswami, 51, has been one of the strongest critics of the BJP, the party she was expelled from in 2018. She has also been one of the most visible leaders of Congress, which she joined in 2021.
