Selja Kumari

Selja Kumari
Selja in 2006
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Sunita Duggal
Constituency	Sirsa
In office 17 May 2004 – 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Rattan Lal Kataria
Succeeded by	Rattan Lal Kataria
Constituency	Ambala
In office 13 March 1991 – 1998
Preceded by	Het Ram
Succeeded by	Sushil kumar Indora
Constituency	Sirsa
President of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee
In office 4 September 2019 – 27 April 2022
Preceded by	Ashok Tanwar
Succeeded by	Udai Bhan
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
In office 28 October 2012 – 28 January 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Mukul Wasnik
Succeeded by	Mallikarjun Kharge
Minister of Tourism
In office 28 May 2009 – 19 January 2011
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Ambika Soni
Succeeded by	Subodh Kant Sahay
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 10 April 2014 – 2 April 2020
Preceded by	Ram Prakash
Succeeded by	Deepender Singh Hooda
Constituency	Haryana
General Secretary of the AICC incharge of Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 December 2023
Preceded by	Devender Yadav
Personal details
Born	(1962-09-24) 24 September 1962 (age 61) Parbhuwala, Punjab, India (now in Haryana, India)
Political party	INC
Residence(s)	Hissar, Haryana
Education	M.A., M.Phil.
Profession	Agriculturist & Social Worker
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Selja Kumari (born 24 September 1962) is an Indian politician and a Member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament. She is a member of the Indian National Congress and has served as the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Social Justice and Empowerment and Tourism during Manmohan Singh's premiership.

Selja was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 from Sirsa, a constituency that she retained in the 1996 elections. Following her election in 2009 to the Lok Sabha from Ambala, she was appointed the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment. Selja unsuccessfully contested the general elections in 2019 from Ambala, and following that made a return to state politics, being elected the president of the Haryana unit of the Congress party later that year.

She was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2014 to 2020. In the 2024 Indian general election, she was elected to the Lok Sabha again from the Sirsa constituency.