Sheila Dikshit

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Born                     :-     31 March 1938 (age 74)    Kapurthala,  Punjab Province, British India

Political party     :-    Indian National Congress


Spouse(s)           :-    Vinod Dikshit (deceased)
  
Children              :-    Sandeep and Latika

Alma mater           :-    University of Delhi

Sheila Dikshit was born in  31 March 1938 at  Kapurthala, Punjab  is an Indian politician who has served as Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. She is a member of the Indian National Congress and has led the party to a record three consecutive electoral victories in Delhi. Dikshit represents the New Delhi constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi.

She was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School in New Delhi and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in history from the Miranda House at the University of Delhi. Dikshit was married to late Shri Vinod Dikshit from Unnao District(Unnao), UP, who had worked in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Vinod Dikshit was son of independence activist and former West Bengal Governor Late Uma Shankar Dikshit, who belonged to Ugoo village of Unnao.
Dikshit has two children including a son, Sandeep Dikshit, who is a Member of Parliament (MP) from East Delhias a representative of the Indian National Congress.

 Dikshit became Chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in setting up two of the most successful hostels for working women in Delhi during the 1970s. She later worked as executive secretary of the Garment Exporters Association

During the period between 1984 and 1989, she represented Kannauj Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh. As a member of Parliament, she served on the Estimates Committee of Lok Sabha. Dikshit also chaired the Implementation Committee for Commemoration of Forty Years of India's Independence andJawaharlal Nehru centenary. She represented India at United Nations Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984–1989).

Dikshit became Chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in setting up two of the most successful hostels for working women in Delhi during the 1970s. She later worked as executive secretary of the Garment Exporters Association

During the period between 1984 and 1989, she represented Kannauj Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh. As a member of Parliament, she served on the Estimates Committee of Lok Sabha. Dikshit also chaired the Implementation Committee for Commemoration of Forty Years of India's Independence andJawaharlal Nehru centenary. She represented India at United Nations Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984–1989).

She represented India on the U.N. Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984–89). In Uttar Pradesh, she and her 82 colleagues were jailed in August 1990 for 23 days by the state government when she led a movement against the atrocities being committed on women. Electrified by this, hundreds of thousands of citizens all over UP joined the movement and courted arrest. Earlier, in the early 1970s, she was chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in the setting up two of most successful hostels for working women in Delhi.