| Ranjeet Ranjan | |
|---|---|
| MP | |
| Constituency | Saharsa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 January 1974 Riva, Bihar |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Pappu Yadav (Rakesh Ranjan) |
| Children | 1 son and 1 daughter |
| Residence | Purnia |
| As of September 26, 2006 Source: [1] |
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Ranjeet Ranjan (b. 1974-01-07) is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing Saharsa, Bihar from the Lok Janshakti Party party. Her She is married to mafia don and politician Pappu Yadav.
Ranjeeta Ranjan, born in Bihar, brought up in Jammu, studied in Punjab and settled in Delhi. More still: Her ancestors were Kashmiri Pandit turned Sikhs.[1]
Ranjeeta Ranjan, was an active lawn tennis player in the Bihar circuit, when Pappu Yadav noticed her on the tennis courts at Patna in 1993. He proposed to her, but his criminal background worried her traditional Sikh family. Eventually he converted to Sikhism and married her.[1]
One year after the marriage, she contested the assembly elections in 1995, but lost.[2] After this she was involved in Pappu Yadav's election campaign in 1999, when he had been jailed on murder charges.[1] In 2004, she entered the fray again, from Saharsa in North Bihar, near Pappu's strongold of Purnea. She won and became one of the youngest MPs in the 14th Lok Sabha. She was active in relief works after devastating floods from the Kosi river.
However, in 2009, she shifted to the nearby Supaul constituency, partly because both Pappu and she changed over to the Indian National Congress. This time though, she lost by more than 1.5 lakhs to Vishwa Mohan Kumar of Janata Dal (United).[3]