Selja Kumari

Selja Kumari
Selja Kumari
	Selja Kumari in 2024
General Secretary of the AICC Incharge of Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 December 2023
Preceded by	Devender Yadav
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Sunita Duggal
Constituency	Sirsa, Haryana
	In office; 17 May 2004 – 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Rattan Lal Kataria
Succeeded by	Rattan Lal Kataria
Constituency	Ambala, Haryana
	In office; June 1991 – March 1998
Preceded by	Het Ram
Succeeded by	Sushil Kumar Indora
Constituency	Sirsa, Haryana
Member of Panel of Chairpersons (Lok Sabha)
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 July 2024 Serving with Sandhya Ray, Dilip Saikia, Jagdambika Pal, Krishna Prasad Tenneti, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, A. Raja, P. C. Mohan, Awadhesh Prasad, N. K. Premachandran
Appointed by	Om Birla
Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
	In office; 28 October 2012 – 28 January 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Mukul Wasnik
Succeeded by	Mallikarjun Kharge
Union Minister of Tourism
	In office; 28 May 2009 – 19 January 2011
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Ambika Soni
Succeeded by	Subodh Kant Sahay
Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
	In office; 1 June 2006 – 28 October 2012
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
Succeeded by	Ajay Maken
Union Minister of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation
	In office; 23 May 2004 – 1 June 2006
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Union Minister of State for Department of Education and Culture in Ministry of Human Resource Development
	In office; 15 September 1995 – 16 May 1996
Prime Minister	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded by	Basavarajeshwari
Succeeded by	Kanti Singh
Union Deputy Minister for Department of Education & Culture in Ministry of Human Resource Development
	In office; July 1992 – September 1995
Prime Minister	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
	In office; 10 April 2014 – 2 April 2020
Preceded by	Ram Prakash
Succeeded by	Deepender Singh Hooda
Constituency	Haryana
President of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee
	In office; 4 September 2019 – 27 April 2022
Preceded by	Ashok Tanwar
Succeeded by	Udai Bhan
Personal details
Born	24 September 1962; Parbhuwala, Punjab, India; (present-day Haryana)
Party	Indian National Congress
Education	M.A., M.Phil.
Profession	Agriculturist & Social Worker
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Selja Kumari (born 24 September 1962) is an Indian politician and a member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament. She is a member of the Indian National Congress and has served as the union minister of state (independent charge) for social justice and empowerment and tourism during Manmohan Singh's premiership.

Selja was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 from Sirsa, a constituency that she retained in the 1996 elections. Following her election in 2009 to the Lok Sabha from Ambala, she was appointed the minister of social justice and empowerment. Selja unsuccessfully contested the general elections in 2019 from Ambala, and following that made a return to state politics, being elected the president of the Haryana unit of the Congress party later that year.

She was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2014 to 2020. In the 2024 Indian general election, she was elected to the Lok Sabha again from the Sirsa constituency.