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| name = N. P. Jhansi Lakshmi<br />
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| office = Member of the [[8th Lok Sabha]] for [[Chittoor (SC) (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chittoor]]<br />
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| term_end = <br />
| predecessor = [[P. Rajagopal Naidu]]<br />
| successor = [[M. Gnanendra Reddy]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1941|10|20}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Visakhapatnam]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2011|12|19|1941|10|20}}<br />
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]], Andhra Pradesh, India<br />
| party = [[Telugu Desam Party]]<br />
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'''N. P. Jhansi Lakshmi''' (20 October 1941 – 19 December 2011) was a politician from [[Andhra Pradesh]] who was elected to the [[8th Lok Sabha]] and served one term in the [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Jhansi Lakshmi was born on 20 October 1941 in [[Visakhapatnam]] to the family of C. K. Chowdary. She received her education till matriculation.<ref name="LS">{{cite web|title=Members Bioprofile: Jhansi Lakshmi, Smt. N. P.|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3047.htm|publisher=[[Lok Sabha]]|accessdate=27 November 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
As a member of the newly formed [[Telugu Desam Party]], Jhansi Lakshmi contested the [[1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] from [[Chittoor (Assembly constituency)|Chittoor seat]] and defeated N. P. Venkateswara Chowdary of the [[Indian National Congress]] by a difference of 16,434 votes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1983/Statistical%20Report%20Andhra%20Pradesh%201983.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=27 November 2017|page=159}}</ref><br />
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The following year, she stood for and won the [[1984 Indian general election|general election]] for the [[8th Lok Sabha]] from [[Chittoor (SC) (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chittoor]], obtaining 3,32,543 votes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1984 to the Eighth Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_II_LS84.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=27 November 2017|page=25}}</ref> She was a regional organiser for Women and Child Welfare programs and secretary of [[Kasturba Gandhi|Kasturba]] Centenary Committee.<ref name="LS" /> Lakshmi did not complete her term and resigned from the Lok Sabha.<ref name="Jai2003">{{cite book|last=Jai|first=Janak Raj|title=Presidents of India, 1950-2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2C2InxI0xAC&pg=PA210|year=2003|publisher=Regency Publications|isbn=978-81-87498-65-0|page=210}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Jhansi Lakshmi married N. P. Veeraraghavulu Naidu on 9 December 1956 and together they had two sons and one daughter.<ref name="LS" /> She died on 19 December 2011 at a private hospital in Hyderabad. She had been admitted there after suffering a [[heart attack]] ten days earlier.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former MLA Dies|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/former-mla-dies/article2733431.ece|accessdate=27 November 2017|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=21 December 2011}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1941 births]]<br />
[[Category:2011 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:8th Lok Sabha members]]<br />
[[Category:Women members of the Lok Sabha]]<br />
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Visakhapatnam]]<br />
[[Category:Telugu Desam Party politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Women in Andhra Pradesh politics]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian women politicians]]<br />
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