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Politician Diya Kumari Biography, Wiki

Born on January 30, 1971, Diya Kumari is an Indian politician affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. She has been working in Bhajan Lal Sharma's ministry since 2023,
Politician Diya Kumari Biography, Wiki

Born on January 30, 1971, Diya Kumari is an Indian politician affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. She has been working in Bhajan Lal Sharma’s ministry since 2023, co-serving as Rajasthan’s sixth deputy chief minister alongside Prem Chand Bairwa. She is presently an MLA in the 16th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, representing Vidhyadhar Nagar. She belongs to the Jaipur State’s former royal family.

From 2019 until 2023, she represented the Rajsamand parliamentary seat in the Lok Sabha.

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Kumari is descended from Man Singh II, the final Maharaja of Jaipur, a princely state in India ruled by the British under the Raj.

Diya Kumari Childhood And Schooling

On January 30, 1971, in Jaipur, Kumari was born into the family of Padmini Devi and Bhawani Singh, a distinguished hotelier and Indian Army officer. She is the granddaughter of Man Singh II, the final Maharaja of Jaipur, a princely state ruled by the British under the Raj.

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Kumari went to Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ Public School in Jaipur, G.D. Somani Memorial School in Mumbai, and Modern School in New Delhi. She graduated from Chelsea School of Arts in London in 1989 with a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Decorative Painting) and from Amity University in Jaipur with an Honours Doctorate in Philosophy.

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She is thought to be a billionaire because she oversees a number of assets, companies, trusts, and educational institutions, including her home, City Palace in Jaipur; Jaigarh Fort in Amber; two trusts, the Jaigarh Public Charitable Trust and the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust, Jaipur; two schools, The Palace School and Maharaja Sawai Bhawani Singh School; and three hotels, Rajmahal Palace in Jaipur, Hotel Jaipur House at Mount Abu, and Hotel Lal Mahal Palace, Jaipur.

Diya Kumari Career In Politics

Bhawani Singh, the late father of Kumari and the erstwhile titular king of Jaipur, ran for parliament from Jaipur in the 1989 Lok Sabha election on a Congress ticket but lost to the BJP candidate.

Gayatri Devi, Kumari’s stepgrandmother and the former Jaipur queen, was elected three times as a Member of Parliament from the Jaipur constituency in 1962, 1967, and 1971. Riding the Swatantra Party banner, she had won these polls with unprecedented margins.

On September 10, 2013, Kumari became a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party in front of two lakh supporters during a Jaipur event. Those in attendance included former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, BJP President Rajnath Singh, and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. She ran as a BJP candidate from Sawai Madhopur in the 2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election and won the position of MLA.

She did not, however, run in the 2018 elections, which the BJP ultimately lost. She was chosen to represent Rajsamand as a member of the Lok Sabha in 2019. She received 8.58 lakh votes, and her 5.51 lakh vote victory margin is in the top 20 largest margins of victory for 2019.

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She was named a Brand Ambassador by the Rajasthani government for Save the Girl Child.

In the 2023 Rajasthan Elections, she is the BJP’s nominee for MLA from the Vidhyadhar Nagar constituency, replacing the five-term incumbent MLA Narpat Singh Rajvi.

Diya Kumari Individual Life

Kumari’s marriage to Narendra Singh, a commoner and Chartered Accountant, produced three children: two sons, Padmanabh Singh and Lakshraj Prakash Singh, and a girl, Gauravi Kumari. This union caused a great deal of controversy because it was unprecedented in royal families. December 2018 saw the divorce of the married couple. It is said of her She and her kids manage the Princess Diya Kumari organisation, an organisation bearing her name that promotes women’s empowerment via social entrepreneurship.

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