| Meenakshi Natarajan | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the AICC | |
| Preceded by | Laxminarayan Pandey |
| Constituency | Mandsaur , Madhya Pradesh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 July 1973 Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Residence | New Delhi |
| Website | http://meenakshinatarajan.com/ |
Meenakshi Natarajan (Hindi: मीनाक्षी नटराजन) (born July 23, 1973) is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from Mandsaur in the 15th Lok Sabha.[1] She is also AICC secretary and is in the core team of Rahul Gandhi for building the party.
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Meenakshi Natarajan was born in Birlagram Nagda, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. She is a post graduate in Biochemistry and did her Bachelor's degree in Law.
She was appointed by P. A. Sangma before quitting the Congress was to appoint her as the NSUI president.[2] She was the NSUI president from 1999–2002 and was selected by Rahul Gandhi as AICC Secretary in 2008.
She worked with Baba Amte, one of her icons apart from Anna Hazare and Sunderlal Bahuguna.[3]
She was selected by Rahul Gandhi for contesting from Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh.[4] in 2009 general elections, which she won by over 30,000 votes defeating her BJP opponent Dr Laxmi Narayan Pandey who has been winning since 1971.[5] She had coined the slogan Pradesh elections.[6]
On her victory:
| “ | We are a young country today. I am not surprised that our youth voters are impatient to change the old ways of doing politics | ” |