| Sarita Arya | |
| Native Name: | सरिता आर्या |
| Honorific-Prefix: | MLA |
| Residence: | Nainital, Uttarakhand, India |
| Office1: | Member of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start1: | 2022 |
| Office: | President Uttarakhand Pradesh Mahila Congress |
| Term Start: | 12 May 2015 |
| Term End: | 17 January 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Sarojani Kaintura |
| Successor: | Jyoti Rautela |
| Office2: | Chairperson Nainital Nagar Palika Parishad |
| Term Start2: | 2003 |
| Term End2: | 2008 |
| Party: | Bhartiya Janta Party (2022–present) Indian National Congress (1999–2022) |
Sarita Arya (Hindi: सरिता आर्या) (born 1961) is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand. She is a two time Member of Legislative Assembly (India) from Nainital Assembly constituency.
She is from Nainital, Uttarakhand. She married Nand Kishore Arya, a Provincial Civil Servant (PCS) of the state Uttar Pradesh in the year 1980. She passed High School in the year 1977 from the Government High School, Bhawali .[1]
Sarita Arya became an MLA for the first time winning the 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election representing Indian National Congress from the lake city Nainital.
She lost the 2017 Assembly election but later in January 2022, she joined the BJP and regained the seat in the 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election representing the Bhartiya Janta Party.[2] [3] [4]
In 2012, the Indian National Congress bagged this seat after a long gap of 23 years. The seat was either with Uttarakhand Kranti Dal or Bharatiya Janata Party starting from the year 1989 until she won in the assembly polls of 2012.[5]
In May 2015, she was appointed the Women State President of Indian National Congress for the state of Uttarakhand by Rahul Gandhi, the then Congress Vice President. She also served as the Chairperson Municipal Corporation Nainital from 2003 to 2008.[6] [7]
She is the District President of AIWC (All India Women's Conference) in 2009 and held the post till 2020. She is an active social worker and fights for women empowerment and gender equality. [8] [9] [10]
| Election | Constituency | Party | Result | Votes % | Opposition Candidate | Opposition Party | Opposition vote % | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Nainital | 52.19% | Sanjeev Arya | 39.24% | [11] | |||||
| 2017 | Nainital | 37.06% | Sanjeev Arya | 48.85% | [12] | |||||
| 2012 | Nainital | 49.69% | Hem Chandra Arya | 37.43% | [13] | |||||