Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah | |
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Member of Parliament for Tehri Garhwal | |
Assumed office 13 October 2012 | |
Preceded by | Vijay Bahuguna |
Personal details | |
Born | Kathmandu,Nepal | 23 August 1950
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
Spouse | Manujendra Shah Sahib Bahadur |
Children | 1 |
Residence | Dehradun |
Profession | Politician,Social Worker |
Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah (born 23 August 1950) is a political and social worker,Member of Parliament elected from the Tehri Garhwal constituency in the Indian state of Uttarakhand being a Bhartiya Janata Party Leader and titular queen of erstwhile Tehri Garhwal kingdom which merged to India. [1] [2]
Mala Rajya Laxmi was born on 23 August 1950 at the Thapathali Durbar,Kathmandu,Nepal.[ citation needed ] She married Manujendra Shah Sahib Bahadur,Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal,on 7 February 1975 and has a daughter,Kshirya Kumari Devi (b. in 1976 in New Delhi).[ citation needed ]
Mala is an Intermediate and studied at Convent of Jesus and Mary,Pune and Ratna Rajya Laxmi College,Kathmandu. [1]
She was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in a by-election and is a Member,BJP State Parliamentary Board in Uttarakhand. [1] She defeated Saket Bahuguna son of Vijay Bahuguna,then chief minister of Uttarakhand and a candidate of Indian National Congress by a margin of over 22,000. [3]
Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah is the daughter-in-law of erstwhile Tehri royal family scion Manabendra Shah,who represented the seat in Lok Sabha a record eight times. [4] She is the first woman elected to Lok Sabha from the state since its creation as a separate state on 9 November 2000. [5]
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