meet the top 10 young politicians of india

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Agatha Sangma (born 24 July 1980)

Representing the Tura constituency of Meghalaya on the ticket of Nationalist Congress Party(NCP), Agatha Sangma is the youngest MP (and minister as well) in the Indian Parliament. The

30-year-old Minsiter of State for Rural Development is the daughter of P.A. Sangma, a

prominent Indianleader and politician, and former speaker of the Lok Sabha. Sangma has a

Masters degree in Environmental Management from Nottingham University, UK.
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Jyotiraditya Scindia (born 1 January 1971)

The young scion of the Scindia family of Gwalior is a 40-year-old Minister of State forCommerece and Industry. He represents Indian National Congress as an MP for the Guna

constituency in Madhya Pradesh. His father Madhavrao Scindia was a prominent Indian

politician and minister from the Congress Party.

After earning amanagement degreefrom the Stanford College in the United States, he worked as

an investment banker for Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley and also gained some developmentexperience working as an intern with the UN Economic Development Cell.
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Naveen Jindal (born 9 March 1970)

Born to O.P. Jindal, who was a prominent Indian industrialist and politician, Naveen Jindalrepresents the Kurukshetra constituency in the state of Haryana on the ticket ofIndian National

Congress. An MBA from the University of Texas, Jindal owns 45 horses and a polo team. He

fought a long legal battle for the legalisation of flying of Flag of India inside and atop non-

governmental buildings and institutions and emerged victorious. He then founded the FlagFoundation of India, a non-profit body to promote the national flag.
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Priya Dutt (born 28 August 1966)

44-year-old Priya Dutt is the daughter of actor-politician Sunil Dutt and actress-politician Nargis.She is the sister of actor Sanjay Dutt. She is currently representing Mumbai North Central

constituency for the Indian National Congress. After graduating in sociology from Sophia

College, Mumbai University, Dutt worked in television and video. Later, she studied at The

Center for the Media Arts in New York. She is actively involved in manycharities andcampaignsfor many social causes including breast cancer awareness.
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Akhilesh Yadav (born 1 July 1973)

The son of the Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh is an MP from theKannuaj constituency in Uttar Pradesh. An engineer by qualification, he is party's Uttar Pradesh

president and is spearheading the campaign to bring back Samajwadi Party to power in 2012 in

UP assemblyelections. Akhilesh's wife, Dimple, unsuccessfully contested the by-election for

Firozabad Lok Sabha seat (in U.P.) in 2009 against actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar.
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Milind Deora (born 4 Dec 1976)

Congress MP from Mumbai South, Milind Deora was born in Mumbai to veteran politicianMurli Deora. He is one of the youngest members of the current Lok Sabha. An alumnus of

Boston University, he founded SPARSH, a social initiative aiming to educate students in

computer and IT proficiency. Milind Deora was inducted in the Union Government of India as

the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in 2011. On 9 November2008, Deora married Pooja Shetty in Mumbai. She heads thefilm productioncompany called

'Walk Water Media' and is the daughter of film producer Manmohan Shetty.
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Dushyant Singh (born 11 September 1973)

Son of Vasundhara Raje, the ex-chief minister of Rajasthan (and also a member of the Scindiaroyal family of Gwalior), Dushyant Singh is a BJP MP from Jhalawar-Baran constituency in the

state. Heacquired a management degreefrom IHTTI School of Management, Neuchatel,

Switzerland. His first cousin Jyotiraditya Scindia is also in politics but represents the Indian

National Congress.
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Supriya Sule (born 30 June 1969)

Supriya Sule is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently an MP forthe Pune constituency in Maharashtra. She is the daughter of the President of the Nationalist

Congress Party, Sharad Pawar. Sule earned a B.Sc. degree from theJai Hind College in Mumbai.

In April 2010, she denied allegations of her family's financial links to IPL (India's largest cricket

league body) when reports on financial irregularities in IPL surfaced.
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