Jai Devi is an Indian politician and a member of

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, Uttar Pradesh of India. She represents the ‘

Malihabad Malihabad is a town and nagar panchayat in the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the seat of a tehsil and a community development block of the same name. As of 2011, its population was 17,818, in 3,032 households. Malihabad is ...

’ constituency in

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district of

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Political career

Jai Devi contested

Assembly Election in 2017 as

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. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, ...

candidate and defeated her close contestant Rajbala from

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

with a margin of 22,668 votes. She contested again in 2022 as

candidate and defeated her close contestant Surendra Kumar from

with a margin of 7,745 votes.

Posts held

References

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