Seema Kumari is an Indian politician and a member of

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(BJP).

Personal life

Kumari is married to Vinod Kumar.

Political career

Kumari was elected

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of Lahri village in 2008 and in

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was elected to the

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from Bhoa, a constituency then reserved for candidates from

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. Then aged 33, she was the youngest member of the assembly. Kumari stood as a candidate in the 2017 state assembly elections but faced criticism because of suspicions regarding an increase in her income. Described as the poorest MLA in the state in 2012, based on her declared assets in an election affidavit, they had grown almost 30-fold by 2017.> She lost her seat in Bhoa to

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of the

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References

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