Rani Ratnamala Devi was an Indian politician and member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

. Ratnamala Devi was a member of the

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha or the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Bhopal, the capital of the state. It is housed in the ''Vidha ...

from the Chandrapur constituency in Janjgir-Champa district on

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ticket. She was one of the 12 BJP MLA who had defected from the

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and floated a suffix 'Party' called Chhattisgarh Vikas Party in order to avoid anti-defection law and merged into the

the next day.Resentment brews in Ch'garh Cong over ticket distribution
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