Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah (born 23 August 1950) is a political and social worker,

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

elected from the

Tehri Garhwal Tehri Garhwal is a district in the hill state of Uttarakhand, India. Its administrative headquarters is at New Tehri. The district has a population of 618, 931 (2011 census), a 2.35% increase over the previous decade. It is the 7th ranked dist ...

constituency in the

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n state of

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

being a

Bhartiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

Leader and titular queen of erstwhile Tehri Garhwal kingdom which merged to India.

Early life and education

Mala Rajya Laxmi was born on 23 August 1950 at the

Thapathali Durbar Thapathali Durbar ( ne, थापाथली दरवार) was a palace complex in Kathmandu, the capital of the Nepal. Thapathali means abode of the Thapas. It was initially built by Nain Singh Thapa of the Thapa dynasty but was later occupi ...

Kathmandu , pushpin_map = Nepal Bagmati Province#Nepal#Asia , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Bagmati Prov ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. She married Manujendra Shah Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of

, on 7 February 1975 and has a daughter, Kshirya Kumari Devi (b. in 1976 in

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House ...

). Mala is an Intermediate and studied at Convent of Jesus and Mary,

Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

and Ratna Rajya Laxmi College, Kathmandu.

Career

She was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in a by-election and is a Member, BJP State Parliamentary Board in Uttarakhand. She defeated Saket Bahuguna son of

Vijay Bahuguna Vijay Bahuguna (born 28 February 1947) is an Indian politician who served as the 6th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He is the eldest son of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, an independence activist and politician, and also a former Chief Minister of Ut ...

then chief minister of

and a candidate of

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

by a margin of over 22,000. Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah is the daughter-in-law of erstwhile Tehri royal family scion

Manabendra Shah Lt. Col. Maharaja Manabendra Shah (26 May 1921 – 5 January 2007) was a member of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand and was a member of the India ...

, who represented the seat in Lok Sabha a record eight times. She is the first woman elected to Lok Sabha from the state since its creation as a separate state on 9 November 2000.

References

External links

Uttarakhand: BJP wins Tehri Lok Sabha bypoll

MP Track Record
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shah, Mala Rajya Laxmi People from New Tehri India MPs 2009–2014 Women in Uttarakhand politics Living people Lok Sabha members from Uttarakhand 1950 births Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014 People from Kathmandu India MPs 2014–2019 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians India MPs 2019–present Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus alumni