Maneka Gandhi Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Secrets, Affairs, Images, Marriage, Phone number.
Maneka Gandhi is an Indian Politician and Animal-Rights Activist. She is from the BJP and a Member of Parliament from Pilibhit, UP. Maneka is the founder of an organization, People For Animals; which is the largest organization in India for animal welfare and animal rights.

Maneka Gandhi Bio/Wiki
Name | Maneka Sanjay Gandhi |
Nickname | Sanjay Gandhi |
Profession | Politician & Animal Rights Activist |
Date of Birth | 26 August 1956 |
Age (as in 2019) | 62 Years |
Zodiac/Sun Sign | Virgo |
Birth Place | New Delhi |
Home town | New Delhi, India |
Parents/ Father | Late Lt. Col. Tarlochan Singh Anand |
Mother | Late Amteshwar Anand |
Brother | None |
Sister | Ambika Shukla |
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personal Life
School | Lawrence School, Sanawar, Himachal Pradesh |
College/ University | Lady Sri Ram College for Women, New Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
Education Qualification | Not Known |
Contact number | Not Known |
Address | 14, Ashoka Road,New Delhi |
Religion | Hinduism |
Caste | Sikh |
Nationality | Indian |
Car | Not Known |
Hobbies | Reading Writing and Gardening |
Debut | Not Known |

Maneka Gandhi Politics
Political Party | Rashtriya Sanjay Manch (1983-1988) Janata Dal (1988-1996) Bharatiya Janata Party (2004-Present) |
Political Journey | 1), 1983, Maneka Gandhi founded the Rashtriya Sanjay Manch 2), Her party won four out of five seats in the 1983 Assembly Elections of Andhra Pradesh 3), She contested the 1984 Lok Sabha Elections from Amethi, Uttar Pradesh but lost to Rajiv Gandhi 4), In 1988, she merged her party with VP Singh’s Janata Dal and was also made the General Secretary of the Janata Dal 5), In November 1989, she won her first election and was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha 6), She got appointed as the Minister of State for the Ministry of Environment in the VP Singh Government 7), She served as the Environment Minister from 1989 to 1991 8), In 1996 and 1998, she contested the Lok Sabha elections from Pilibhit as an independent candidate and won 9), In 1999, she supported the BJP and was appointed as the Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment 10), She joined the BJP in 2004 and contested and won the Lok Sabha Elections from Pilibhit 11), In 2009 she contested from the Aonla Lok Sabha seat 12), Became a member of the Loka Sabha from the Pilibhit Constituency 13), She was made the Union Minister of Women & Child Development in 2014 in the Narendra Modi Government 14), She contested the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections from Sultanpur and won by a slender margin of 14,526 votes against BSP’s Chandra Bhadra Singh |
Awards, Honours, Achievements | 1), Lord Erskine Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in 1992 2), Environmentalist and Vegetarian of the year 1994 3), Prani Mitra Award in 1996 4), Lifetime Achievement Award by the Venu Menon Animal Allies Foundation, 1999 5), Dewaliben Charitable Trust Award, 1999 6), International Women’s Association, Woman of the Year Award, 2001 7), Woman of the Year Award by International Women’s Association, 2001 8), Rukmini Devi Arundale Animal Welfare Award, 2011 9), Human Achiever Award in the field of Women Empowerment and Children Welfare by the Human Achiever Foundation, India |
Marital Status/Affairs
Marital Status | Widowed |
Affairs/Boyfriends | Late Sanjay Gandhi |
Marriage Date | 23 September 1974 |
Husband/Spouse | Late Sanjay Gandhi (Politician) |
Children | Son- Varun Gandhi Daughter- None |
Style Quotient
Assets/Properties | Movable Assets: INR 12.46 crores Cash: INR 39,000 Bank Deposits: INR 6.07 crores Jewelry: 3415.59 gm of Gold and 85.025 kg of Silver worth INR 1 crores Bonds & Debentures: INR 6.07 crores Immovable Assets: INR 24.95 crores 1 Residential Building worth INR 18 crores 1 Commercial Building worth INR 6 crores |
Salary/Networth
Salary (as the Minister of Women and Child Development) | INR 1 lac + other benefits (per month) |
Networth | INR 37.14 crores (as in 2014) |
Social Media Accounts
Not Known | |
https://www.facebook.com/ManekaGandhiOfficial/ | |
https://twitter.com/manekagandhibjp |

Maneka Gandhi Some Lesser-Known Facts
- Does Maneka Gandhi drink alcohol?: Yes
- Does Maneka Gandhi smoke?: Not Known