Ansuyabai Borkar
# Ansuyabai Borkar

Ansuyabai Bhaorao Borkar was a social activist, Indian National Congress politician and member of the 1st Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament from 1955–57.

## Early life

Ansuyabai was born in Kampti, Madhya Pradesh (then a part of Central Provinces and Berar) in 1929 to a family of cultivators. She received education from Salem Girls Hindi English Middle School of Raipur.

## Career

Borkar was an active social worker and conducted education programs for adult women in Nagpur. She was also a member of the Nagpur district committee of the Indian National Congress (INC) party.

After the death of her husband, a sitting MP, Borkar contested for and won a seat from the two-member Bhandara (Reserved, Madhya Pradesh) constituency in the 1955 bye-election as an INC candidate; obtaining 84,458 votes. The opposing Scheduled Castes Federation candidate secured approx 58,000 votes.

## Personal life

In 1947, she married INC politician Bhaurao Borkar. Together they had three daughters. Bhaurao was an MP from Bhandara and died in office on 2 February 1955.

Borkar died in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 18 July 2000.

