About Ansuyabai Borkar
Lived 1929 – 2000 (aged 70–71). Ansuyabai Borkar was an Indian politician.
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. She received education from Salem Girls Hindi English Middle School of Raipur.
Career Borkar was an active social worker and conducted education programs for adult women in Nagpur.
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.
Personal life In 1947, she married INC politician Bhaurao Borkar. Together they had three daughters.
Borkar died in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 18 July 2000.
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