| Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah | |
| Birth Date: | 1950 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Tehri Garhwal |
| Term Start: | 13 October 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Vijay Bahuguna |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Spouse: | Manujendra Shah Sahib Bahadur |
| Children: | 1 |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Residence: | Dehradun |
| Profession: | Politician, Social Worker |
Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah (born 23 August 1950) is a political and social worker, Member of Parliament elected from the Tehri Garhwal constituency in the Indian state of Uttarakhand being a Bhartiya Janata Party Leader and titular queen of erstwhile Tehri Garhwal kingdom which merged to India.[1] [2]
Mala Rajya Laxmi was born on 23 August 1950 at the Thapathali Durbar, Kathmandu, Nepal. She married Manujendra Shah Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal, on 7 February 1975 and has a daughter, Kshirya Kumari Devi (b. in 1976 in New Delhi).
Mala is an Intermediate and studied at Convent of Jesus and Mary, Pune and Ratna Rajya Laxmi College, Kathmandu.[1]
She was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in a by-election and is a Member, BJP State Parliamentary Board in Uttarakhand.[1] She defeated Saket Bahuguna son of Vijay Bahuguna, then chief minister of Uttarakhand and a candidate of Indian National Congress by a margin of over 22,000.[3]
Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah is the daughter-in-law of erstwhile Tehri royal family scion Manabendra Shah, who represented the seat in Lok Sabha a record eight times.[4] She is the first woman elected to Lok Sabha from the state since its creation as a separate state on 9 November 2000.[5]