Meenakshi Natarajan

Meenakshi Natarajan
Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the AICC
Preceded by	Laxminarayan Pandey
Constituency	Mandsaur , Madhya Pradesh
Personal details
Born	23 July 1973 (1973-07-23) (age 38) Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Residence	New Delhi
Website	http://meenakshinatarajan.com/

Meenakshi Natarajan (Hindi: मीनाक्षी नटराजन) (born July 23, 1973) is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from Mandsaur in the 15th Lok Sabha.^[1] She is also AICC secretary and is in the core team of Rahul Gandhi for building the party.

Background

Meenakshi Natarajan was born in Birlagram Nagda, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. She is a post graduate in Biochemistry and did her Bachelor's degree in Law.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

Organisational roles

She was appointed by P. A. Sangma before quitting the Congress was to appoint her as the NSUI president.^[2] She was the NSUI president from 1999–2002 and was selected by Rahul Gandhi as AICC Secretary in 2008.

She worked with Baba Amte, one of her icons apart from Anna Hazare and Sunderlal Bahuguna.^[3]

2009 Elections

She was selected by Rahul Gandhi for contesting from Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh.^[4] in 2009 general elections, which she won by over 30,000 votes defeating her BJP opponent Dr Laxmi Narayan Pandey who has been winning since 1971.^[5] She had coined the slogan Pradesh elections.^[6]

On her victory:

“

We are a young country today. I am not surprised that our youth voters are impatient to change the old ways of doing politics

”

^[7]

References

1. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Team-Rahul-hopes-to-make-a-difference/articleshow/4553919.cms
2. ^ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080423/jsp/nation/story_9175080.jsp
3. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/No-poll-trick-This-MP-rides-an-auto/articleshow/4562465.cms
4. ^ http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20090605261101000.htm
5. ^ http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/100-success-rate-for-sonia-in-mp/62285/on
6. ^ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080423/jsp/nation/story_9175080.jsp
7. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052203399.html

External links

• Official site

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Name	Natarajan, Meenakshi
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Date of birth	July 23, 1973
Place of birth	Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
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