Vasundhara Raje Scindia
BJP JHALRAPATAN
Vasundhara Raje Scindia is a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the two-time Chief Minister of Rajasthan (from 2003 to 2008 and again from 2013 to 2018). Raje led the BJP to massive victories in the 2003 and 2013 Rajasthan Assembly Elections winning 120 and 163 seats respectively in the 200-member strong state Assembly. Vasundhara Raje has been representing the Jhalrapatan Assembly constituency since 2003. In the 2003 Rajasthan polls, she defeated Congress candidate Rama Pilot by 27,375 votes. She retained the seat in 2008, 2013 and 2018. In the 2018 polls, she won the seat by defeating Jaswant Singh's son and Congress candidate Manvendra Singh. She entered the Rajasthan Assembly for the first time in 1985 when she secured victory in the Dholpur constituency. Vasundhara Raje won five consecutive Lok Sabha Elections from the Jhalawar constituency in 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 1999 before leaving it for her son Dushyant Singh in 2004. In the 1989 Lok Sabha polls, Raje defeated Congress candidate Shiv Narain with a margin of 1,46,541 votes. She again won in 1991 by defeating Congress candidate Man Singh with a margin of 91,160 votes. Man Singh was again defeated by Raje in 1996 by 48,884 votes. votes. In 1998, Raje defeated Congress candidate Bharat Singh by 63,567 votes and became the Union Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999. She held several portfolios including Minister of State for Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries, Department of Personnel and Training, Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space in the Vajpayee Cabinet from 1999 to 2003. She was also the chief of BJP's Rajasthan state unit in 2003. She was also the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly in 2009. Vasundhara is again contesting from Jhalrapatan in the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly Election 2023.
Gender
F
Age
70
Cases
No
Profession
Salary and Allowances
Total Assets
5.5Crore
Movable Assets
5Crore
Immovable Assets
50Lac
Liabilities
-
Pan Given
Y
Self Income
12.7Lac
Total Income
12.7Lac
Candidate Affidavit Data 
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