Asit Mitra is an Indian National Congress politician.[1] He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2021, elected twice in 1996 and 2001 from Kalyanpur and twice in 2011 and 2016 from Amta.[2][3][4][5] He was given the responsibility of being the Congress's Purulia district observer by the West Bengal Pradesh Congress in 2021.[6]