Sangeeta Balwant is an Indian politician from the

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, ...

. Currently Serving as Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha From Uttar Pradesh. Balwant contested the

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election held in 2017 and was elected from the Ghazipur Sadar assembly constituency. She is known as grass-rooted political leader.

Early life

Sangeeta was born in Ghazipur City. She got her education in the city and started taking part in political activities of

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. However, with the influence of BJP leader Manoj Sinha, she joined

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