Dr Vijaylaxmi Sadho (born 13 November 1955) is an Indian social worker, politician and a former member of parliament (

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

) elected from

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...

, being an

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 ...

candidate. Sadho represents

Maheshwar Maheshwar is a town, near Khargone city in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh state, in central India. It is located on State Highway-38 ( Khargone city-Barwaha- Bandheri Highway),13.5 km east of National Highway 3 (Agra-Mumbai highway) a ...

in the

Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 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 ''Vidhan ...

. She took oath as a cabinet minister of new MP government on 25 December 2018.

Early life and education

Sadho was born on 13 November 1955 in Mandleshwar in Khargone district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. She is a graduate of Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal in

M.B.B.S. Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...

Career

Sadho was General secretary of

Indian Youth Congress The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While p ...

, Madhya Pradesh from 1985 to 1992. She served as a member of

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 ''Vidhan ...

from 1985 to 1989. She has been a member of Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Women and Child Welfare and Committee on the Welfare for SC, ST and Other Backward Classes. From 1989 to 1990, she served as a parliamentary secretary. She was a member of Department of Public Health and Family Welfare and Department of Jails, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh from 1993 to 1998. From 1985 to 2018 she got elected to the MP Legislative assembly for 5 terms. She lost the elections in 1990 and 2003. In 2013 she didn't contest the elections as se got elected to

. She was elected to Rajya Sabha in April 2010. She served as a member of Committee on Health and Family Welfare, Select Committee to the Prevention of Torture Bill, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Rural Development, Committee on Health and Family Welfare and Central Supervisory Board.

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