Baby Rani Maurya

Baby Rani Maurya (born 15 August 1956) is an Indian politician, currently serving as a minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh since March 2022. She served as seventh governor of Uttarakhand from 26 August 2018 till September 2021, when she resigned two years before completing her term. Early life Maurya was born on 15 August 1956. She has Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees. Career Maurya became active in politics in the early 1990s, following her marriage to a bank officer, Pradeep Kumar Maurya, who now serves on the advisory board of the Punjab National Bank after retiring as its director. She began her political career as a worker of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 1995 she contested the Agra mayoral election on a BJP ticket, and won with a large mandate. She was the first woman to be mayor of Agra, and held the post until 2000. In 1997, Maurya was appointed an office bearer of the scheduled caste (SC) wing of the BJP. Ram Nath Kovind, who late became the President of India, was then the chairman of the SC wing. As office bearer of this wing she assumed responsibility for strengthening the BJP's reach among members of the scheduled castes in Uttar Pradesh. In 2001, she was made a member of the Uttar Pradesh social welfare board. In recognition of her efforts toward the empowerment of dalit women, in 2002 she was made a member of the National Commission for Women. She served on the commission until 2005.