Karuna Shukla

Smt. Karuna Shukla
Member of Parliament
In office
2004–2009
Preceded byCharan Das Mahant
Succeeded byKamla Patle
ConstituencyJanjgir
Personal details
Born(1950-08-01)1 August 1950
Gwalior, Madhya Bharat, India
Died27 April 2021(2021-04-27) (aged 70)
Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Cause of deathCOVID-19
Political partyIndian National Congress (since 2014)
Other political
affiliations		Bharatiya Janata Party (1982-2013)
SpouseMadhav Shukla
RelationsAtal Bihari Vajpayee (uncle)
Children1 son and 1 daughter
As of 25 September, 2006
Source: [1]

Karuna Shukla (1 August 1950 – 27 April 2021) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India.

Biography

She represented the Janjgir constituency of Chhattisgarh and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party till 2013. She lost the 2009 elections from Korba to Charan Das Mahant of the Indian National Congress who was minister at union govt.

She resigned from the BJP on 25 October 2013 citing that the party was "allegedly under the grip of power politics".[1][2]

Karuna was the niece of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

After having ended her 32-year-long association with BJP, on 27 February 2014, she joined Indian National Congress and contested 2014 Loksabha election from Bilaspur constituency in Chhattisgarh. She was defeated by BJP's Lakhan Lal Sahu by a margin of 176,436 votes.

She contested 2018 Chhattisgarh Vidhan sabha election from Rajnandgaon, but lost. She was defeated by former Chief minister Sri Raman Singh.

On April 27, 2021, she died from COVID-19.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla joins Congress, slams Narendra Modi".
  2. ^ "AB Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla quits BJP - Times of India". The Times of India. 26 October 2013.
  3. ^ Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s niece, former MP, Karuna Shukla dies of Covid-19