2006-12-20 20:36:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ India ➔ Delhi and NCR
Sheila Dikshit (sometimes rendered Shiela and Dixit) (born March 31, 1938) has been the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. She is from the Indian National Congress. In early 1970s, she was chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in the setting up two hostels for working women in Delhi.
Championing the cause of women at various fora, she represented India at United Nations Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984-1989).
During the period between 1984 and 1989, she represented Kannauj Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh. As a member of Parliament, she served on the Estimates Committee of Lok Sabha. She also chaired the Implementation Committee for Commemoration of Forty Years of India's Independence and Jawaharlal Nehru centenary.
She has also served as a Union Minister during 1986-1989, first as the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and later as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office.
She, along with 82 colleagues, was jailed by the government of Uttar Pradesh in August 1990 when she led a people's movement against the atrocities being committed on women.
She took over as Chief Minister of Delhi on December 3, 1998 after the Congress, led by her in Delhi, swept the assembly polls , the second woman to become CM of Delhi .She represents Gole Market constituency in the Delhi Assembly. She was reelected in the 2003 elections, after the Congress again obtained a majority in the assembly polls.
On 26th March 2006, in Melbourne Australia, she accepted the Commonwealth Games Flag on behalf of Delhi and India the host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games . This will be the first time the Commonwealth Games would be held in India
Educated at Convent of Jesus and Mary, New Delhi, and Miranda House, she has a Master of Arts degree from Delhi University. She has two children, one son and one daughter.
She is related to Uma Shankar Dixit a cabinet minister in Indira Gandhi government.
2006-12-20 20:49:39 · answer #1 · answered by nehal_rws 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs. Sheila Dixit is a politician and all political leaders are most currupt in the universe
2006-12-21 05:07:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sonu Raja 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you said she is the chief minister for the state of delhi and she is enjoying her second term as Chief minister. And it was in her period Delhi got the prestegious Metro Train and she is also criticised for the sealing drive undertaken in Delhi.
2006-12-21 04:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by Stunner_cool 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A performer par excellence. Delhi shall owe a lot to her in the future.
2006-12-22 03:49:46 · answer #4 · answered by Rainbow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
leave her dude she is so old think about mallika serawat
2006-12-21 05:40:16 · answer #5 · answered by pankaj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋