Chhabila Netam | |
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Member of the 11th Lok Sabha for Kanker | |
In office 1996–1998 | |
Preceded by | Arvind Netam |
Succeeded by | Sohan Potai |
Majority | 24,420 |
Personal details | |
Born | Bhaismundi,Bastar district,Chhattisgarh,India | 22 May 1948
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Chhabila Arvind Netam (born 22 May 1948) is an Indian National Congress politician and member of the 11th Lok Sabha from the Kanker reserved constituency. [1]
Chhabila was born on 22 May 1948 in Bhaismundi village of Bastar district and did her matriculation from a local government school. [2]
During the 1996 Indian general election,the Indian National Congress (INC) party denied a ticket to Arvind Netam because his name surfaced in the Hawala scandal and instead made his wife Chhabila its official candidate. [3] [4] She polled 219,191 votes and defeated Sohan Potai of Bharatiya Janata Party (194,771 votes) to become the Member of Parliament from Kanker seat reserved for scheduled tribes. [2] [5] However the house was dissolved well within one and a half years and Netam did not contest the election held in 1998. [4] [6] She stood in the 1999 Indian general election but lost to Potai by a difference of 88,191 votes. [7]
Chhabila married Netam in May 1969 and together they have four children;two sons and two daughters. [2] One of their daughters,Preeti Netam contested the 2008 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election. [8]