Ansuyabai Borkar


Ansuyabai Bhaorao Borkar was a social activist, Indian National Congress politician and member of the 1st Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament from 1955–57.

Early life

Ansuyabai was born in Kampti, Madhya Pradesh in 1929 to a family of cultivators. She received education from Salem Girls Hindi English Middle School of Raipur.

Career

Borkar was an active social worker and conducted education programs for adult women in Nagpur. She was also a member of the Nagpur district committee of the Indian National Congress party.
After the death of her husband, a sitting MP, Borkar contested for and won a seat from the two-member Bhandara constituency in the 1955 bye-election as an INC candidate; obtaining 84,458 votes. The opposing Scheduled Castes Federation candidate secured approx 58,000 votes.

Personal life

In 1947, she married INC politician Bhaurao Borkar. Together they had three daughters. Bhaurao was an MP from Bhandara and died in office on 2 February 1955.
Borkar died in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 18 July, 2000.