Savitri Bai Phule (born 1 January 1981) is an Indian politician and president of the Kanshiram Bahujan Samaj Party (KBSP). She was elected to the state assembly in 2012 from Balha in Bahraich district as a candidate of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

. She contested 2014

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

election from Bahraich and became member of

16th Lok Sabha Members of the 16th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2014 Indian general election. The elections were conducted in 9 phases from 7 April 2014 to 12 May 2014 by the Election Commission of India. The results of the election were declared on 16 M ...

. On 7 September 2015, Phule filed a complaint against Dilip Buildcon Limited company over caste remarks and threatening her with dire consequences.

Personal life

Savitribai was born on 1 January 1981 in a

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family at

Nanpara Nanpara is a town & municipal board in Bahraich district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a region along the Nepal Border and includes tracts of dense forests. It is a city surrounded by many villages. Geography Nanpara is located a ...

in Bahraich district,

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. She studied at

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. She is influenced by Babasaheb Ambedkar and

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lu ...

. She follows

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and wears

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cloths as a symbol of Buddhism.

Political career

She was elected to the state assembly in 2012 from Balha in Bahraich district as a candidate of

. She contested 2014

election from Bahraich and became member of

. She quit BJP on 6 December 2018 stating "Party Trying To Divide Society", Her action comes after the

Chief Minister

Yogi Adityanath Yogi Adityanath (born on 5 June 1972 as Ajay Singh Bisht),

's comment on

Hanuman Hanuman (; sa, हनुमान, ), also called Anjaneya (), is a Hindu god and a divine '' vanara'' companion of the god Rama. Hanuman is one of the central characters of the Hindu epic ''Ramayana''. He is an ardent devotee of Rama and on ...

’s caste and joined

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 ...

on 2 March 2019. She contested 2019 general elections from Bahraich parliamentary constituency as an

candidate. She got 34454 votes and lost the seat to

Akshaibar Lal Akshaibar Lal (born 1 January 1947; also known as Akshaywar Lal Gond) is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as a member ...

of Bhartiya Janta Party. In January 2020, Phule founded Kanshiram Bahujan Samaj Party (KBSP).

References

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