2007-03-25 04:51:36 · 8 answers · asked by RUMPA N 1 in Travel ➔ India ➔ Delhi and NCR
Sheila Dixit
2007-03-25 05:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by Harish K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sheila Dikshit (sometimes rendered Shiela and Dixit) (born March 31, 1938) is 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.
Sheila Dikshit giving a speech in the Vivekanand slum colony of New Delhi
Sheila Dikshit giving a speech in the Vivekanand slum colony of New 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.[citation needed].
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 have been 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.
2007-03-25 05:02:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mrs. Sheela Dixit
2007-03-26 22:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by diamond 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs.Sheila Dixit
2007-03-27 23:08:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sheela Dixit.
2007-03-25 22:06:53 · answer #5 · answered by ajay b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some so called b**** Mrs. Shiela Dixit
2007-03-26 22:32:45 · answer #6 · answered by The Nomad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shiela Dixit ;)
2007-03-26 17:37:51 · answer #7 · answered by vinsam007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shila dikhshit
2007-03-25 04:59:38 · answer #8 · answered by Vishnu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋