Shanimol Osman is an Indian politician from

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. Shanimol was elected as

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from

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on a by-election in 2019. She is the first woman leader from Kerala to become the secretary of

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and is an LLB Degree holder. She contested from Alappuzha parliament constituency in 2019 election as Indian National Congress candidate and lost to Adv. A. M. Ariff of

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by 9213 votes but in the assembly by-election 2019, she defeated the nearest rival candidate Manu C. Pulickal of the CPI (M) Party by a margin of 2,079 votes. Shanimol Osman is the only woman MLA of UDF in the 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly.

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Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala Living people 1966 births Kerala MLAs 2016–2021 21st-century Indian women politicians Women members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly {{Kerala-INC-politician-stub