Ranjeet Ranjan (born 7 January 1974) also known as Ranjeeta is an Indian politician. She was member of the 14th Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Supaul, Bihar from the Indian National Congress party.

She is married to politician Rajesh Ranjan better known as Pappu Yadav a former three-time winner of the Lok Sabha polls, who has also won the 16th Lok Sabha election from the cons*uency of Madhepura, Bihar as an independent Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate.

In the 14th Lok Sabha, she won and became one of the youngest MPs of Saharsa in North Bihar, Even though Congress' star campaigners, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, have not canv*ed her in Supaul, she still managed to attract 332927 votes on her own and winning the elections against her immediate rivals Dileshwar Kamait of JD(U) and Kameshwar Chaupal of BJP.

Life

Ranjan was born in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh brought up in Jammu, studied in Punjab and settled in Delhi. Further, her ancestors were Kashmiri Pandit turned Sikhs.

Ranjeet Ranjan also called as Ranjeeta Ranjan, was an active lawn tennis player in the Bihar circuit, when Pappu Yadav noticed her on the tennis courts in Patna in 1993. He proposed to her. Eventually, he converted to Sikhism and married her.

One year after the marriage, she contested the *embly elections in 1995, but lost. After this she was involved in Pappu Yadav's election campaign in 1999. In 2004, she entered the fray again, from Saharsa in North Bihar, near Pappu's stronghold of Purnea.

However, in 2009, she shifted to the nearby Supaul cons*uency, partly because both she and her husband changed over to the Indian National Congress. This time though, she lost by more than 1.5 lakhs to Vishwa Mohan *ar of Janata Dal (United).In the 2014 elections Ranjeeta Ranjan clinched the Supaul seat as a Congress candidate defeating JD(U) rival Dileshwar Kamait by around 60,000 votes and made it to Lok Sabha.

She delighted the shutterbugs on Women's day 2016 when she came to parliament in her Harley Davidson bike.

References

External links

• Ranjeet Ranjan official website
• Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070314203546/http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/itoday/20070226/ Recent Cover Story on India Today
• http://www.pappuyadav.in/ official website of 15th Lok sabha Madhepura MP,Sri Rajesh Ranjan