Personal Life & Political Career
Meenakshi Lekhi is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is a member of the constituency of New Delhi in the 16th Lok Sabha.
She won the high parliamentary election in New Delhi with over 4.5 more votes as a BJP candidate in the 2014 elections. In July 2016, she was appointed chair of the Lok Sabha Privilege Committee in Parliament and continues since then this position. In addition to writing articles in magazines, publications and newspapers on socio-political issues, she is also involved in various television programs on national and international issues. Lekhi writes "Forthwrite", a column in The Week magazine. With equal command in both English and Hindi, she is known for her debates in parliament and has distinguished herself by many debates on national issues at Lok Sabha, such as debates on intolerance in India and Triple Talaq Bill. . She has also distinguished herself as an active participant in the various parliamentary processes and in receiving Lokmat's "Best First Woman Parliamentary" award in 2017.
Early life
After completing B.Sc. Meenakshi Lekhi joined the Delhi University Campus Law Center for his son. She joined the Delhi Bar Council in 1990 and began practicing at the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and several other courts, tribunals and forums in different parts of the country.
Lekhi belongs to a family of renowned lawyers. Her father-in-law, Pran Nath Lekhi, and her husband, Aman Lekhi, have both been prominent lawyers and have handled several important and popular cases. Her husband, lead counsel, Aman Lekhi, Deputy Solicitor General of the Supreme Court, is known to have dealt with cases such as Lajpat Nagar's bomb attack, multiple murders of Vasant Kunj, etc., among others.
My late father, the late Pran Nath Lekhi, as a Supreme Court lawyer, is known for his record on Satwant Singh, the murderer of Indira Gandhi and Zahira Sheikh the violence of Gujarat in 2002.
Legal career
She has practiced in various courts, including several courts, the Delhi Court and the Supreme Court. She has also conducted in various forums in India and also a treaty of many issues concerning women in court, as domestic violence, family law disputes and especially the permanent commission of officers in the armed forces. It also has a social activity and has been associated with several institutions, including the National Commission for Women, Sakshi, NIPCD and several other organizations for the protection of the rights of women and children in the country.
Lekhi has been on the drafting committee for bills such as the Women's Reserve Bill and the Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace Bill. The latter was adopted by Parliament as law in 2013. [citation needed]
Meenakshi Lekhi has the media in court to obtain permission for media coverage of court proceedings. She succeeded in this effort. She referred to the case of the permanent entry into service of women in the Indian armed forces before the Supreme Court.
Social Work
Meenakshi Lekhi has been a member of the Special Committee of the National Commission for Women, Chair of the Special Working Group on Women's Empowerment, Vice President of JPM, Blind School (New Delhi) and Assistant Secretary of the Blind Relief Association in Delhi.In April 2015, she participated in a national environmental awareness program organized by "Women Can", a non-governmental organization. She awarded 500 sapling of trees to the award-winning students. The students participated in a women-initiated India quiz competition, with the help of student volunteer Apoorv Jha, who published a question book and designed the quizzes.
Associate to several NGOs, also with Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an organization associated with Sangh Parivar and from there she was invited by BJP President Nitin Gadkari to join the BJP in her Mahila Morcha and from there her political career took off.
As a parliament member
Meenakshi Lekhi contested the elections in the parliamentary constituency of New Delhi in the 2014 parliamentary elections and outgoing President Ajay Maken with a margin of 2.7 million votes. In his constituency, New Delhi Municipal New Delhi Council (NDMC) She is the ex-officio president of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (India Chapter) and was appointed a member of the Press Council of India by President Lok Sabha. She has been appointed Chair of the Privilege Committee. from Lok Sabha in July 2016 and is currently an active member of the Standing Committee on Urban Development, the Staff Committee, the Law and Justice Committee, the Trade Advisory Committee and the Housing Committee.
On August 28, 2015, the Ministry of Urban Development and NDMC approved the name change of the Aurangzeb Road and APJ Abdul Kalam Road.Lekhi, CMDN member and MP for the New Delhi constituency played important role in this decision. As a member of the NDMC, she also received the name of Dalhousie Road, a road near the Secretariat Building in New Delhi, changed to Dara Shikoh Road. , the road of Delhi housing the residence of the Indian prime minister, to Lok Kalyan Marg, about
Meenakshi Lekhi adopted the relevant Pilanji village from his New Delhi parliamentary constituency to become the village model under the name Sansad Adarsh ??Gram Yojana by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Panchayat village, as required under the program, she also adopted the village of Qutubgarh in the suburbs of Delhi, which lies outside her constituency.
In July 2017, Lekhi received the Lokmat Parliamentary Award as "Best Beginning Parliamentary Woman"
Regarding the use of MPLAD funds among the 7 deputies of Delhi, Meenakshi Lekhi (New Delhi) had spent the maximum. She used Rs 2.50 crore on Rs 5 released by the government in the first year, or 50% of the total released.
In a debate on the Triple Talaq bill in Parliament in December 2017, Meenakshi Lekhi demanded severe sanctions against religious and religious leaders who support and facilitate the process of triple talaq, known as talaq-i -biddat. In addition, she said:
"I mean to Muslim women, when you're a brother like Narendra Modi, you do not need to be afraid, we're with you in this fight."
With regard to the growing lynch mob incidents in India, she said the lynching incidents were due to economic disparities. Examples of assassination of Manik Roy, an immigrant worker from Bengal, beaten by a group of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, with a woman and a man of the Madhu family, 30, The Kerala crowd accused of theft, Lekhi many cases of lynching are due to poverty and economic problems.
She has been actively involved in parliamentary processes. In the 16th Lok Sabha, Lekhi participated in 95 debates (national average 57.9), to a total of 378 questions (national average 251) and to a presentation of 15 private projects to 1.8 km to Lok Sabha (update until April 6). , the end date of the budget session, 2018). Its overall participation in parliament until the 2018 budget session was 95% against the national average of 80%.
