Sarita Bhadauria (born 4 January 1963) is an Indian politician from

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. She is also a member of 17th Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh of India. She hails from the

Etawah Etawah also known as Ishtikapuri is a city on the banks of Yamuna River in the state of Western Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Etawah District. Etawah's population of 256,838 (as per 2011 population census) m ...

constituency in

which is considered to be the stronghold of

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and

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. She defeated the Samajwadi party's candidate by 17234 votes in the 2017 Assembly elections.

Political career

She entered into politics in 1999 and contested the unsuccessful parliamentary elections on a congress ticket from Etawah constituency. Soon after in the year 2000 she joined

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and again contested the 2004 Loksabha elections from the Etawah seat but lost. Initially she started working in public as a basic social worker but soon gained popularity among the masses. She was made the secretary of the Uttar Pradesh unit of BJP in 2007. In 2010 she was made the national vice president of BJP Mahila Morcha when

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was the president. In 2013 she was made the vice president of the

Uttar Pradesh unit. Currently she holds the post of UP President of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan under the leadership of PM

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. In 2017 she was elected as a member of the

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from

(Vidhan Sabha constituency) as the

candidate. She received 91234 votes in this election.

Personal life

Her husband's name was Abhay Veer Singh. She has two sons and a daughter, who is married to a doctor, Ashish Chauhan.

References

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