Ranjeet Ranjan
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Ranjeet Ranjan (born 7 January 1974) also known as Ranjeeta is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh. She was member of the 14th Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Supaul, Bihar from the Indian National Congress party.
She is married to politician Rajesh Ranjan better known as Pappu Yadav[1] a four-time winner of the Lok Sabha polls, who has also won the 16th Lok Sabha election from the constituency of Madhepura, Bihar as an independent Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate.
In the 14th Lok Sabha, she won and became one of the youngest MPs of Saharsa in North Bihar, Even though Congress' star campaigners, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, have not canvassed her in Supaul,[2] she still managed to attract 332927 votes[3] on her own and winning the elections against her immediate rivals Dileshwar Kamait of JD(U) and Kameshwar Chaupal of BJP.
Life
Ranjan was born in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh brought up in Jammu, studied in Punjab and settled in Delhi. Further, her ancestors were Kashmiri Pandit turned Sikhs.[4][5]
Rajesh Ranjan converted to Sikhism and married her.[4]
One year after the marriage, she contested the assembly elections in 1995, but lost.[6] After this she was involved in Pappu Yadav's election campaign in 1999.[4] In 2004, she entered the fray again, from Saharsa in North Bihar, near Pappu's stronghold of Purnea.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
However, in 2009, she shifted to the nearby Supaul constituency, partly because both she and her husband changed over to the Indian National Congress. This time though, she lost by more than 1.5 lakhs to Vishwa Mohan Kumar of Janata Dal (United).[7]
In the 2014 elections Ranjeeta Ranjan gained the Supaul seat as a Congress candidate defeating JD(U) rival Dileshwar Kamait by around 60,000 votes and made it to Lok Sabha.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
On Women's day 2016, she came to parliament on her Harley Davidson bike.[8]
References
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External links
- Ranjeet Ranjan official website
- Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070314203546/http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/itoday/20070226/ Recent Cover Story on India Today
- http://www.pappuyadav.in/ official website of 15th Lok sabha Madhepura MP,Sri Rajesh Ranjan
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- Women in Bihar politics
- Lok Janshakti Party politicians
- India MPs 2014–2019
- Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar
- People from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh
- Lok Sabha members from Bihar
- 21st-century Indian women politicians
- India MPs 2004–2009
- Rajya Sabha members from Chhattisgarh
- Women in Chhattisgarh politics
- Women members of the Lok Sabha
- Women members of the Rajya Sabha