Poonam Mahajan Rao
| Poonam Mahajan Rao | |
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| Member of the India Parliament for Mumbai North Central |
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Assumed office 16 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Priya Dutt |
| Majority | 1,86,771 (22.09%) |
| National President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha | |
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Assumed office 16 December 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Anurag Thakur |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 December 1980 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Parents |
Pramod Mahajan (father, deceased) Rekha Mahajan (mother) |
| Residence | Mumbai |
Poonam Mahajan alias Poonam Vajendla Rao (born 9 December 1980) is a Member of Parliament from Mumbai North Central and a politician of the BJP. She appointed as President of Bhartiya Janta Party Yuva Morcha [BJYM] in December 2016, Youth Wing of Bhartiya Janta Party [BJP]. She is also the President of the Basketball Federation of India for which she is the first women President.
She was born in Mumbai to Rekha Mahajan and the late Pramod Mahajan leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. Her brother is Rahul Mahajan. She along with her brother studied abroad in the United States and lived in London, England. They still maintain a residence in the United Kingdom.
Following her father's murder in 2006, Poonam Mahajan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party as a member of the party, with the encouragement of her uncle late Gopinath Munde, himself an ex-Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra state. Now she's the national secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party
In the run up to the Lok Sabha elections she made efforts to register new and young voters in south Mumbai and subsequently expected to get the LS ticket from that area.
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha is the youth wing of the parent body and as per internal constitution it elects/selects new team after every 3–5 years. Mahajan was made National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in August 2010.
She contested the 2014 Indian general election from Mumbai North Central. and won with a margin of 1.86 lakh votes in one of the biggest upsets in this Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. She defeated her nearest rival and two-time MP Priya Dutt of the Congress.
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