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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
 | name               = Abha Maiti
 | image              = 
 | caption            = 
 | order              = 
 | office             = [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Minister of State for Industry]]
 | term_start         = 12 August 1977
 | term_end           = 1979
 | primeminister      = [[Morarji Desai]]
 | office1            = Minister of  Refugee and Social  Welfare,<br/>[[Government of West Bengal]]
 | term_start1        = 1962
 | term_end1          = 1969
 | office2            = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]]
 | term_start2        = 3 April 1960
 | term_end2          = 4 March 1962
 | office3            = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]]
 | constituency3      = [[Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency)|Panskura]]
 | predecessor3       = ''Constituency established''
 | successor3         = [[Geeta Mukherjee]]
 | term_start3        = 1977
 | term_end3          = 1980
 | office4            = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]]
 | term_start4        = 1952
 | term_end4          = 1957
 | constituency4      = [[Khejuri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Khejuri]]
 | alongside4         = Koustav Kanti Karan
 | predecessor4       = ''Constituency established''
 | successor4         = Abanti Kumar Das
 | term_start5        = 1962
 | term_end5          = 1969
 | predecessor5       = Basanta Kumar Panda<br/>Bhikhari Mondal
 | successor5         = Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
 | constituency5      = [[Bhagabanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bhagabanpur]]
 | birth_date         =  22 April 1925
 | death_date         =  1 January 1994
 | birth_place        = Kalicharanpur, [[Midnapore district|Midnapore]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
 | party              = [[Janata Party]]
 | otherparty         = [[Bharatiya Lok Dal]]<br/>[[Indian National Congress]]
 | father             = Nikunja Behari Maiti<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reed|first1=Stanley|author-link1=Stanley Reed (British politician)|title=The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950|date=1950|publisher=[[The Times Group|Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd.]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206/page/n744 710]|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206|access-date=23 February 2018}}</ref>
}}
'''Abha Maiti''' (born 22 April 1925) is a former Indian politician. She was the minister of state for industry in the [[Morarji Desai]] government from 1977<ref>{{cite news|title=12 August 1977, Forty Years Ago: Lyricist Dead|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/august-12-1977-forty-years-ago-lyricist-dead-coke-vs-india-pm-expands-ministry-4792704/|work=The Indian Express|access-date=23 February 2018}}</ref> to 1979.

== Early life ==
She was educated at [[Bethune College]].{{cn|date=December 2020}}

== Career ==
She was born in 1925 to Ahalya and Nikunja Behari Maiti, a politician. She obtained B.A. and LL.B. degrees from [[University of Calcutta]]. 

She was elected to the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] from [[Khejuri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] in 1951 and from [[Bhagabanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] in 1962, 1967 and 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp |title=Statistical Reports of Elections |access-date=1 December 2010 |work=General Election Results and Statistics |publisher=Election Commission of India |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp |archive-date=5 October 2010 }}</ref> Between 1960 and 1962, Maiti was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bagchi|first1=Jasodhara|author-link1=Jasodhara Bagchi|title=The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000: The Challenge Ahead|date=2005|publisher=SAGE Publications India|isbn=9788132101789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIuHAwAAQBAJ|access-date=23 February 2018}}</ref>

She was elected to [[Lok Sabha]] in 1977 from [[Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency)|Panskura]] in [[West Bengal]] on the [[Janata Party]] ticket.

==References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2447.htm Abha Maiti profile]


{{First to Tenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}
{{West Bengal Legislative Assembly4}}

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[[Category:People from Paschim Medinipur district]]
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[[Category:Lok Sabha members from West Bengal]]
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1951–1957]]
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[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1967–1969]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Lok Dal politicians]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Janata Party politicians]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress (Organisation) politicians]]


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