S. Phangnon Konyak is an Indian politician from

Nagaland Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital cit ...

. She is the State President of

BJP Mahila Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha, or simply Mahila Morcha (IPA: Mahilā Mōrcā, ), is the women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India. Vanathi Srinivasan, former Tamil Nadu BJP Unit Vice president and current Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislat ...

, Nagaland. In March 2022, she became the first woman to be elected as

Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha A Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (abbreviated: MP) is the representative of the Indian states to the one of the two houses of the Parliament of India (Rajya Sabha). Rajya Sabha MPs are elected by the electoral college of the elected ...

from Nagaland and the second woman from the State to be elected to either House of the Parliament or the State Assembly.

Biography

She did her schooling from Holy Cross Higher Secondary School,

Dimapur Dimapur () is the largest city in the Indian state of Nagaland. As of 2011, the municipality had a population of 122,834. The city is the main gateway and commercial centre of Nagaland. Located near the border with Assam along the banks of the ...

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She holds a

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from

Daulat Ram College Daulat Ram College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Founded by educationist and philanthropist Shri Daulat Ram Gupta in 1960, it is located in the North Campus. The college provides education at Bachelor's as well as Mas ...

(

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

) (Batch of 2002) and has been involved in student activism and social organization

References

Living people People from Nagaland Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Nagaland Rajya Sabha members from Nagaland Women members of the Rajya Sabha 1978 births {{Nagaland-BJP-politician-stub