Neeraj Zimba

He was born to Tekdhoj Tamang Zimba and hails from Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. He obtained his master's degree (M.A.) in political science from Annamalai University in 2012 and also holds a Master of Law (LL.M.) from The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University. He is an advocate by profession.^[1]

An ardent follower of Subash Ghising^[5] since his school days, he became the youngest Central Committee Member of the GNLF party and the youngest Indian Gorkha Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) to represent his 23-Darjeeling Constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 2019 at the age of 36.^[6] He became the party Spokesperson in 2016. His #RTI^[7] reports on Gorkhaland Issue and Tribal Status Issue have garnered public attention.

As of 2019, he is the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), representing 23-Darjeeling Assembly Constituency in West Bengal Legislative Assembly as a Bharatiya Janta Party [BJP] legislator. In May 2019, Neeraj Zimba, the BJP-GJM-Bimal Faction-backed GNLF candidate won the elections who polled 87,896 (61.8%) votes while Binoy Tamang, an Independent candidate backed by TMC stood second with 41611 (29.18%). Amar Lama of JAP came a distant third with 3233 (2.27%) votes. Zimba won by a margin of 46,538 votes.^[6]