Veena Devi | |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start: | 23 May 2019 |
Constituency: | Vaishali |
Primeminister: | Narendra Modi |
Predecessor: | Rama Kishore Singh |
Office1: | Bihar Legislative Assembly |
Term Start1: | November 2010 |
Term End1: | November 2015 |
Constituency1: | Gaighat |
Predecessor1: | Maheshwar Yadav |
Successor1: | Maheshawar Yadav |
Office2: | Vice Chairperson, District Councils of India |
Term Start2: | 2006 |
Term End2: | 2010 |
1Blankname2: | District |
1Namedata2: | Muzaffarpur |
Office3: | Chairperson, District Councils of India |
Term Start3: | 2001 |
Term End3: | 2006 |
1Blankname3: | District |
1Namedata3: | Muzaffarpur |
Office4: | 3rd Parliamentary Chairperson of the Lok Janshakti Party |
Predecessor4: | Chirag Kumar Paswan |
Term End4: | 5 October 2021 |
Party: | Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) |
Otherparty: | Rashtriya Lok Janshakti PartyBharatiya Janata Party |
Birth Date: | 22 April 1967 |
Residence: | Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India |
Children: | 4 |
Occupation: | Politician |
Nationality: | Indian |
Veena Devi (born 22 April 1967) is an Indian politician serving her 2nd term as current Member of parliament from Vaishali. She is a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from the Gaighat constituency. In the 2019 Indian general election, she contested from Vaishali with Lok Janshakti Party and defeated Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.[1]
On 2 September 2021, she became the parliamentary chairperson of Lok Janshakti Party replacing Chirag Kumar Paswan.[2] [3]
Devi was born on 22 April 1967 in Darbhanga, Bihar, to Upendra Prasad Singh and Sabujkala Devi. She is a matriculate.[4] She married Dinesh Prasad Singh, who is the MLC from Muzaffarpur, on 27 April 1984.[4] [5] [6] They have two sons and two daughters.[4] She lives in Dauadpur village.[7]
She became an MLA in the Vidhan Sabha election in 2010 in Gaighat with BJP. She had contested the 2010 Vidhan Sabha elections from Ghaighat Seat on the BJP ticket. She was ex Chairperson from Muzaffarpur.[8] [9] She became the chairperson of Muzaffarpur district in 2001 and the deputy chairperson in 2006.