- Selja Kumari
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name = Selja Kumari
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birth_date =Birth date and age|1962|9|24|df=y
birth_place =Chandigarh
residence =Hissar ,Haryana
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constituency = Ambala
office = MP, Minister of State (independent charge) for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
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party =INC
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spouse = unmarried
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footnotes =date = May 16
year = 2006 |
source = http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=3589Selja Kumari (born
24 September ,1962 ) is a member of the14th Lok Sabha ofIndia is a member of theIndian National Congress (INC) political party. She is a minister of state (independent charge) ofMinistry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in the UPA government.Education
She is the daughter of the dalit leader Chaudhary Dalbir Singh. She studied at the elite
Convent of Jesus and Mary School in New Delhi and has a M.Phil fromPunjab University .Political career
She began her political career in the Mahila Congress becoming its President in 1990. One of the seniormost dalit leaders within the Congress party, she was elected to the 10th
Lok Sabha in 1991 fromSirsa in Haryana. She was Union Minister of State for Education and Culture in theNarasimha Rao -led Congress government. Despite the Congress debacle in Haryana in 1996 she was reelected to theLok Sabha .In 2004, she was elected to the Lok Sabha representing the Ambala constituency of
Haryana . She was Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in theManmohan Singh -led UPA government.External links
* [http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=3589 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
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