Sushila Rameshwar Dudi (born 1966) is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. She was elected to the

16th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan was constituted after the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections which were concluded in November 2023 and the results were declared on 3 December 2023. Composition * In the 2023 Rajasthan ...

from Nokha, Rajasthan Assembly constituency in Bikaner district. She is a member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

. She is wife of

Rameshwar Lal Dudi Rameshwar Lal Dudi (born 1 July 1963) is an Indian politician from Bikaner, Rajasthan. He served as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He served as the Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Bikaner from 1999 to ...

, former Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly.

Early life and education

Dudi hails from Nokha town in

Bikaner Bikaner () is a city in the northwest of the States and territories of India, state of Rajasthan, India. It is located northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. It is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division. Fo ...

district of Rajasthan. Her husband Rameshwar Dudi, is a former Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Rajasthan Assembly. She passed Class 12 and later joined the BSc course at a college affiliated with University of Ajmer, but discontinued her studies after the second year. She runs the family business in petroleum products.

Career

Sushila, a political novice, was nominated by the Indian National Congress Party to contest the 2023 election to capitalise on the sympathy factor following her husband Dudi's hospitalisation due to brain haemorrhage. Despite being a first-timer, she won as an MLA from the Nokha seat which was formerly held by her ailing husband even though Congress did not fare well in the election. She was elected in the

2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Rajasthan on 2023 elections in India, 25 November 2023 to elect List of constituencies of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, 199 of the 200 members of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. The results were ...

representing the

. She polled 83,215 votes and defeated her nearest rival and sitting MLA, Bihari Lal Bishnoi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 8,149 votes. Bishnoi got 75,066 votes.

References

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