Ansuyabai Borkar
{{Short description|Indian politician and social activist}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = Member of the Lok Sabha
| term = 1955–1957
| party = Indian National Congress
| constituency = Bhandara
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1929}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|07|18|1929|df=yes}}
| death_place = Nagpur, India
| birth_place = Kampti, Central Provinces and Berar, British Raj
}}
Ansuyabai Bhaorao Borkar was a social activist, Indian National Congress (INC) politician and member of the 1st Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament from 1955 to 1957.
Early life
Ansuyabai was born in Kampti, Madhya Pradesh (then a part of Central Provinces and Berar) in 1929 to a family of cultivators.{{cite web|title=Lok Sabha Synopsis of Debates: Obituary References|url=http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/lsdeb/ls13/ses4/03082k.htm|publisher=Parliament of India|accessdate=1 November 2017}} She received education from Salem Girls Hindi English Middle School of Raipur.{{cite web|title=Members Bioprofile: Borkar, Shrimati Ansuyabai|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/549.htm|publisher=Lok Sabha|accessdate=1 November 2017}}
Career
Borkar was an active social worker and conducted education programs for adult women in Nagpur. She was also a member of the Nagpur district committee of the Indian National Congress (INC) party.{{cite book|last=Ralhan|first=O. P.|title=Indian Women Through Ages: Eminent Indian Women in Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-G3aAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Anmol Publications|isbn=978-81-7488-143-4|page=39}}
After the death of her husband, a sitting MP, Borkar contested for and won a seat from the two-member Bhandara (Reserved, Madhya Pradesh) constituency in the 1955 by-election as an INC candidate, obtaining 84,458 votes. The opposing Scheduled Castes Federation candidate secured approximately 58,000 votes.{{cite web|title=Election Results of Bye-elections, 1952-1995|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=1 November 2017|format=XLS}}
Personal life
In 1947, she married INC politician Bhaurao Borkar. Together they had three daughters. Bhaurao was an MP from Bhandara and died in office on 2 February 1955.{{cite book|title=Indian Parliamentary Companion: Who's who of Members of Lok Sabha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLZVAAAAYAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=74}}
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Category:Women members of the Lok Sabha
Category:Lok Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh
Category:People from Nagpur district
Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Maharashtra
Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Madhya Pradesh
Category:People from Bhandara district
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