Neena Verma (19 October 1957) is an Indian politician from

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

state. She is a member of the

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(BJP) and a Member of the

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha or the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Bhopal, the capital of the state. It is housed in the ''Vidh ...

for Dhar Vidhan Sabha Constituency. Her husband is

Vikram Verma Vikram Verma (born 23 January 1944) is an Indian politician and a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Dhar, Madhya Pradesh. He formerly served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha. He also served as a Minister in the ...

, a senior BJP politician and former Union Minister.

Political career

Verma ran on the BJP ticket in the

2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election The 2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was declared by the Election Commission of India on 14 October 2008. Elections for 230 seats took place on 27 November 2008, and counting started on 8 December. The Bharatiya Janata Party won ...

from

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Vidhan Sabha Constituency. Balmukund Goutam of the

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(INC) won the seat by two votes in the first vote count; he received 50,507 votes against Verma's 50,505. Verma and her party requested to recount the votes, and she was then declared winner by only one vote. The final tally of votes was 50,510 to 50,509. Goutam challenged Verma's election and the recounting process in the

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in 2009. He petitioned that there was misconduct in counting the

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. The Indore Bench of the High Court ruled in favour of Goutam on 19 October 2012, and declared Verma's election void on the grounds of non-compliance of the provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act. Verma filed a recrimination petition against the eligibility of Goutam, in that he did not reveal his criminal background in his

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at the time of filing his nomination for the assembly election in 2008, leading to a violation of section 33 (A) and section 123 of Representation of the People Act. However, the Bench rejected the petition on 23 November 2012. Goutam was declared elected by the Court on 14 August 2013 and took his oath of office on 24 September 2013. The BJP gave a ticket to Verma to contest from the Dhar Constituency in the 2013 state assembly election, held on 25 November. Her main opponent was Balmukund Goutam, whom she defeated with a margin of 11,482 votes. On 20 November 2017, the Madhya Pradesh High Court nullified Verma's election after it was discovered that she left several columns in her affidavit blank.

Personal life

Verma is married to Vikram Verma, who is a senior BJP politician, former leader of opposition in the

and former

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Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports. She owns of land in Dhar as per an affidavit submitted by her husband while filing a nomination for

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in 2006. She resides in Bangiey Bhopal,

Bhopal Bhopal (; ISO 15919, ISO: Bhōpāl, ) is the capital (political), capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes,'' due to ...

, capital city of Madhya Pradesh.

References

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