Sanghmitra Maurya


Sanghmitra Maurya is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Badaun, Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, defeating senior Samajwadi Party leader Dharmendra Yadav. She earlier contested in Mainpuri in 2014 as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party but lost to Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Personal life

Maurya was born on 3 January 1985 in Allahabad city in Uttar Pradesh to politician Swami Prasad Maurya and Shiva Maurya. She is a practitioner of Buddhism. She is daughter of Swami Prasad Maurya. Her family converted to Buddhism from Hinduism. She did her M.B.B.S from ERA's Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow.