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Sarita Choudhary | |
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Mayor of South Delhi | |
In office 2013–2014 | |
Sarita Chaudhary (born 1975) is a former mayor of South Delhi Municipal Corporation and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party.
She studied B.ed and LLB from Maharishi Dayanand University. [1]
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