Vijaya Barthwal

Vijaya Barthwal is an Indian politician from the Bhartiya Janta Party. She is three term member of legislative assembly and had represented Yamkeshwar assembly constituency of Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. She was in Cabinet of chief minister B.C.Khanduri and Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank's government. She served as the first deputy speaker of Uttarakhand.

Career

Vijaya began her career from the political party Bhartiya Janta Party and elected first time as member of legislative assembly in 2002. Later she won as a candidate of Bhartiya Janta Party in the 2007 and 2012 Uttarakhand assembly election.

She never lost any election in her career. In 2017 assembly elections barthwal was denied party ticket and BJP decided to field Ritu Khanduri daughter of former uttarakhand chief minister instead of her against huge public outrage. Barthwal was the only women BJP MLA in the third assembly and holds an image of down to earth political worker. Barthwal filed the nomination to fight as an independent candidate but later withdrew her nomination supporting her party's decision. She holds a huge public support and is a speculative BJP candidate for 2019 general Lok Sabha elections from Pauri.

Cabinet minister

In 2007, Khanduri become chief minister of Uttarakhand and barthwal was in his Cabinet as minister . ^[1][2][3]

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