Ritu Khanduri is an Indian political leader. He won the 2022 Uttarakhand Assembly election from Kotdwar constituency of Uttarakhand on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. In March 2022, she was elected as the first woman Speaker in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. She has also led the Uttarakhand Mahila Morcha unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Wiki/Biography
Ritu Khanduri was born on Friday, 29 January 1965 (age 57 years; as in 2022) in Pauri, Uttarakhand. Their zodiac sign is Aquarius. In 1986, she earned a BA (Hons.) degree from Raghunath Girls College, Meerut University. Later, he did his post graduation from Rajasthan University.
Physical Appearance
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
Ritu Khanduri’s father’s name is Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri who is the former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and a retired Major General from the Indian Army. In 1982 he was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal. Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri was appointed as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand twice – from 2007 to 2009, and from 2011 to 2012. His mother’s name is Aruna Khanduri.
Ritu Khanduri with her parents
His grandfather’s name is Jai Ballabh Khanduri and he was a journalist. Her grandmother’s name is Durga Devi Khanduri and she was a social worker. Ritu Khanduri has two siblings and one of her siblings is a politician named Manish Khanduri.
Manish Khanduri
husband and children
Ritu Khanduri is married to Rajesh Bhushan, an IAS officer who was appointed as the Union Health Secretary of India in 2022.
-Rajesh Bhushan, Ritu Khanduri’s husband
The couple have two children.
livelihood
Teacher
Ritu Khanduri started working as a professor at Amity University, Noida in 2006. He taught there until 2017. In 2017, she joined politics at the behest of her father BC Khanduri. While talking to the media, one of her acquaintances told that Ritu Khanduri always wanted to become a teacher. He said,
She was a teacher and was very happy with her teaching job. Initially he was hesitant in entering politics but he did so on the insistence of his father. The reluctance was initial, as she is now fully invested in politics. She was disappointed after not getting the ticket (from Yamkeshwar) because she had nurtured this constituency very well.
Politics
Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri had lost the assembly elections from Kotdwar seat in 2012 to his rival Surendra Singh Negi. Since then he has not contested any election. Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri’s legacy was taken over by Ritu Khanduri in 2017. She defeated former minister Surendra Singh Negi from Yamkeshwar seat in the 2017 assembly elections and won the election for the first time. In 2022, he contested the assembly elections from Kotdwar seat on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket and won by a huge margin. In March 2022, he was named as the sixth Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand state. The first Speaker of the Uttarakhand Assembly was a BJP candidate named Prakash Pant.
property/property
movable property
- Deposits in Banks: Rs. 24,50,515
- Bonds, Debentures and Shares: Rs. 13,51,772
- LIC or other insurance policy: Rs. 6,65,012
- Motor Vehicle: Rs. 8,20,000
- Jewellery: Rs. 24,00,000 Gross Total Value: Rs. 70,72,317
Immovable property
- Agricultural Land: Rs. 32,00,000
- Non-agricultural land: Rs. 80,80,400
- Commercial Building: Rs. 20,00,000
- Residential Building: Rs. 1,35,00,000Total: Rs. 2,67,80,400
Liabilities
- Loan from Banks: Rs. 1,50,345
net worth
As of 2017, Ritu Khanduri’s net worth is Rs. 33702372 crores.
Facts/General Knowledge
- Her full name is Ritu Khanduri Bhushan.
- Manish Khanduri, one of Ritu Khanduri’s siblings, is a leader of the Indian National Congress. In 2019, he lost the Lok Sabha elections from Garhwal constituency.
- In March 2022, soon after winning the assembly elections from Kotdwar constituency, in a media interaction, Ritu Khanduri promised the voters of Kotdwar that she would work hard to ensure development. He said,
First of all, I would like to thank the party high command and the voters of Kotdwar for reposing faith in me. It is exactly a decade when my father also contested elections from here and he will work hard to ensure development and raise and resolve the issues of the local people.
- Ritu Khanduri is very active on her Facebook page. She often posts pictures and videos of her political campaigns and rallies on it. More than 15 thousand people follow him on Facebook.
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