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Know why the builder of modern Delhi Sheila Dikshit lost the elections

New Delhi: Sheila Dikshit who ruled uninterruptedly for 15 years in Delhi not only lost by 22,000 votes to Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, but her party Congress faced the most shameful rout in

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: December 09, 2013 7:01 IST


Now let's have a look at Sheila Dikshit's profile:

Dikshit was exposed to politics after she married Vinod Dikshit, an IAS officer and son of former union minister and governor Uma Shankar Dikshit.

First elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984 from Kannauj Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh, she served as a Minister under Rajiv Gandhi first as the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and later as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister's office.

She served as Minister of State for Parliamentary affairs in Rajiv Gandhi's Cabinet between 1986-89 but was in brief hibernation after losing Lok Sabha elections in 1989 from Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh.

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