Lucknow, April 8 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh has sturdy and established girls leaders however, mockingly, nearly all of this ‘Nari Shakti’ doesn’t belong to this state.
Barring just a few, many of the girls leaders have come from different states and after contesting a number of elections, they’ve consolidated their place in Uttar Pradesh.
Senior Congress chief Sonia Gandhi leads the brigade of political expertise imported from exterior Uttar Pradesh. A local of Italy who was residing in New Delhi along with her in-laws, the Gandhi bahu made her political debut from Amethi in 1999 after which contested and received the Rae Bareli seat from 2004 to 2019.
Sonia Gandhi started campaigning in Amethi from 1984 when her husband Rajiv Gandhi made his political debut.
When Sonia Gandhi lastly took a plunge in politics after the previous Prime Minister’s demise, she selected the household turf, Amethi.
The previous Congress President was at one time seen as a first-rate ministerial candidate, although she by no means claimed the place.
One other lady politician who was seen as a potential prime ministerial candidate is BSP supremo, Mayawati.
Mayawati was born in Delhi however her political ‘karambhoomi’ grew to become Uttar Pradesh when the primary SP-BSP authorities got here into existence in 1993 within the state.
Circumstances propelled Mayawati into the Uttar Pradesh chief minister’s chair in 1995 and over time, she has emerged as a politician who can’t be ignored.
Actor-turned-politician, Hema Malini, who’s in search of her third time period from Mathura, belongs to Tamil Nadu and has spent most of her life in Mumbai.
She contested and received the 2014 and 2019 elections from Mathura. Hema Malini calls herself ‘Krishna ki gopi’ and claims to have a divine join with Mathura.
Amongst others on this record is Smriti Irani, who’s in search of her second time period from Amethi and initially belongs to Delhi.
Nevertheless, after successful Amethi in 2019, she calls herself ‘Amethi ki bitiya’. She has even constructed her residence in Gauriganj in Amethi and is effectively versed with native politics and the native folks.
Maneka Gandhi, who initially belongs to Delhi, is the senior-most MP amongst these girls, having received her first election in 1989 on a Janata Dal ticket. She later joined the BJP and has all the time chosen Uttar Pradesh to contest elections — first Pilibhit after which Sultanpur.
Jaya Prada, one other actor-turned-politician, was born in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh however selected Uttar Pradesh to kickstart her political profession regardless that she had earlier joined the TDP.
Jaya Prada efficiently contested the Rampur Lok Sabha seat in 2004 and 2009 elections on a Samajwadi Get together ticket. Later, she joined the BJP in 2019.
Dimple Yadav, senior SP chief and spouse of Akhilesh Yadav, initially belongs to Uttarakhand however made Uttar Pradesh her residence after her marriage to Akhilesh.
Dimple Yadav started her profession by shedding a bypoll to Raj Babbar of the Congress from Firozabad in 2009 however received the Kannauj seat in a 2012 bye-election. She received the Kannauj seat in 2014 however misplaced in 2019.
Nevertheless, Dimple Yadav received the Mainpuri bye-election after the demise of Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2022.
Amongst all these girls leaders, it’s only Union Minister Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal (S) who was born and introduced up in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Curiously, even previously, a number of girls leaders who made a mark in Indian politics have been born exterior Uttar Pradesh however selected to contest polls from the state.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar, made her debut in politics when she received a bye-election from Bijnor in 1985. Meira Kumar, who’s the daughter of late veteran politician Jagjivan Ram, was born in Bihar.
Former Delhi Chief Minister, late Sheila Dikshit, received her first election from Kannauj in 1984. She was born in Kapurthala in Punjab.
Freedom fighter Sucheta Kripalani, the primary lady Chief Minister in India, who headed the Uttar Pradesh authorities, additionally belonged to Punjab however received the Meeting polls from Mehdawal in Sant Kabir Nagar.
–IANS
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