Gulab Devi

Some Lesser Known facts About Gulab Devi

• Gulab Devi is an Indian politician, teacher, and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She was elected as the MLA from Chandausi in Uttar Pradesh five times, in 1991, 1996, 2002, 2017, and 2022. She made headlines in 2023 when a YouTube journalist was arrested for questioning her on unfulfilled promises at an event organised by the UP government in the Sambhal district.

• While studying at S. M. College in Chandausi, she joined the student wing of the RSS, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

• After completing her formal education, she began working as a teacher at Bhartiya M Girls Inter College in Chandausi, where she taught political science. Later, she became the principal of Inter College. In an interview, Gulab Devi said that she became a teacher to financially support her family as she belonged to a poor family.

• She joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) while teaching at the inter-college in Chandausi and began working as an RSS Pracharak in Uttar Pradesh.

  

• Gulab Devi became a member of the Estimates Committee in 1997.

• In the same year, she assumed the charge of Women’s Welfare, Child Development, and Nutrition ministry and served till 2002.

  

• From 2002 to 2003, she served as a member of the Joint Committee on Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Denotified Castes.

• In 2008, she was appointed BJP UP’s vice president, a post that she held till 2012.

• In the same year, Gulab Devi was appointed as the Minister of the State of Social Welfare, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes.

• After Gulab Devi was given a ticket to contest the 2022 assembly polls in UP, around 200 BJP workers tendered their resignation as they were against the decision of the party to give her a ticket. According to a BJP leader, the workers resigned as they wanted the party to give a ticket to another candidate to contest the elections from the Chandausi constituency. Talking about it, in an interview, he said,
  

  Those who have resigned are angry over the party ticket being given to Gulab Devi for the assembly elections. They were demanding a ticket for someone else, and we have also informed the party high command about this. Around 200 booth adhyaksh, 15 sector in-charges and a large number of party workers have tendered their resignation.”

• While giving an interview, Gulab Devi said that despite her becoming an MLA, her father refused to give up working as a washerman.

• Gulab Devi is an avid dog lover, and she has a pet Labrador.