Name of Member: Kumari Vimla Verma
Political Party: Indian National Congress
Constituency & State: Seoni (Madhya Pradesh)
Lok Sabha Experience: 10,12
Biographical Sketch Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha
VERMA, KUMARI VIMLA
[INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS - SEONI (MADHYA PRADESH)]
Father's Name Late Shri K.P. Verma
Date of Birth 1 July 1929
Place of Birth Nagpur (Maharashtra)
Marital Status Unmarried
Educational Qualifications
M.A., B.T.
Educated at Allahabad University, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh)
and Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)
Profession
Agriculturist, Political and Social Worker,
Teacher and Educationist
Permanent Address
Giridhar Bhawan, Distt. Seoni-480661
(Madhya Pradesh)
Tel. (07692) 20700
Present Address
24, Talkatora Road,
New Delhi - 11001
Tels. (011) 3352598, 3352597
Positions Held
District Convenor, Mahila Wing, Congress, Madhya
Pradesh
1963-67 President, District Congress Committee (D.C.C.),
Madhya Pradesh
1963 onwards Member, All India Congress Committee (A.I.C.C.)
1967-90 Member, Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1967-68 Member, Public Accounts Committee
1967-69 General-Secretary, Pradesh Congress Committee
(P.C.C.), Madhya Pradesh
1969-72 Minister of State, Irrigation and Power, Madhya
Pradesh
1972-75 Minister of State for Health, Madhya Pradesh
1977-80 General-Secretary, P.C.C., Madhya Pradesh
(2nd term)
1979-80 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
1980-85 Cabinet Minister, Public Work Department, Irrigation,
Rural Development and Transport, Madhya Pradesh
1982-90 Member, Business Advisory Committee
1987-88 Member, General Purposes Committee
1987-89 Member, Women and Children Welfare Committee
1988-89 Cabinet Minister, Labour and Human Resource
Development, Madhya Pradesh
1989-90 Cabinet Minister, Food and Civil Supplies and
Co-operation, Irrigation, Narmada Development
and Public Health Engineering
1991 Elected to 10th Lok Sabha
1991-95 Chairperson, Committee on Communications
Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes
1995-96 Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Human
Resource Development (Department of Women and
Child Development)
1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1998-99 Chairperson, Committee on Absence of Members
from the sittings of the House
Member, Committee on Agriculture
Member, General Purposes Committee
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Environment and Forests
Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments
President, Hindi Sahitya Samiti, Seoni, for several years
Social and Cultural Activities
Founder-Member, (i) Education Committee, Seoni; and
(ii) Seoni Educational Society; Founder, Arts College,
Seoni; and Member, Madhya Pradesh State Social Welfare Board
Special Interests
Literature and politics
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Art and listening to music
Countries Visited
China, Philippines, Thailand and U.S.S.R.; Member, (i)Indian
Delegation, Moscow; (ii) Delegation to Women's Conference,
Moscow; and attended UN Women's Conference, Beijing
Other Information
Conferred, Vidhan Kirti award by Madhya Pradesh Legislative
Assembly for being the most distinguished legislator and
for significant contribution to the legislative business
of the House; Chairman, Project implementing Committee,
Central Social Welfare Board; General-Secretary, Bharat
Yuvak Samaj, Madhya Pradesh; Vice-President, Bharatiya
Gramin Mahila Sangh; and Member, Madhya Pradesh Sewa Dal
Board; worked as Honorary Lecturer for two years;
imprisoned for demonstrating against ill treatment meted
out to Smt. Indira Gandhi during Janata regime, 1977-79;
appointed Observer for Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan
and assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and
Tamil Nadu by A.I.C.C.; and appointed Observer for
assessing political situation in five constituencies of
Lok Sabha by Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi
Election Result of
Seoni Lok Sabha Constituency
Total electorate 10,60,569
Total votes polled 6,70,268
Votes polled in favour of the first four leading candidates
(1) Kumari Vimla Verma (I.N.C.) 3,12,097
(2) Shri Prahladsingh Patel (B.J.P.) 2,88,376
(3) Shri Uday Sahu (B.S.P.) 18,231
(4) Shri Laxman Patel (J.D.) 16,936
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