BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SHARMA, SHRIMATI MALTI:

M.A. (Political Science); B.J.P. (Uttar Pradesh); d. of late Shri Lauti Ram and late Shrimati Saraswati Devi; b. at Village Nahvi, District Sonepat, Haryana, June 30, 1930; ed. at Vedic Putri Pathshala, Muzaffarnagar, U.P.; m. Shri Brahma Nand, March 8, 1947; 3 s. and 1 d.

Social Worker; President, State Mahila Morcha of B.J.P.; District President of B.J.P. for 12 years; Vice-President, Central Mahila Morcha of B.J.P. and State Vice-President of B.J.P.; General Secretary, Central Mahila Morcha of B.J.P.; State Secretary of B.J.P.; Member, (i) B.J.P. Central Working Committee, 1972-92, (ii) U.P. Legislative Assembly, 1977-80, (iii) Committee on Communications, 1994-95, (iv) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Human Resource Development, 1994-97, (v) Committee on Railways, 1996-97, (vi) Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas and (vii) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Civil Aviation; was Deputy Minister of Education in Uttar Pradesh Government, 1977-79; was detained under MISA and imprisoned in the Naini Jail for one and a half years during Emergency; elected to the Rajya Sabha in April, 1994.

Special interest: Social work, welfare of women and weaker sections.

Favourite pastime and recreation: Reading.

Permanent address: 92, Sarwat Gate North, Muzaffarnagar (U.P.).