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| name = Abha Maiti<br />
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| office = [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Minister of State for Industry]]<br />
| term_start = 12 August 1977<br />
| term_end = 1979<br />
| primeminister = [[Morarji Desai]]<br />
| office1 = Minister of Refugee and Social Welfare,<br/>[[Government of West Bengal]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1962<br />
| term_end1 = 1969<br />
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]]<br />
| term_start2 = 3 April 1960<br />
| term_end2 = 4 March 1962<br />
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]]<br />
| constituency3 = [[Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency)|Panskura]]<br />
| predecessor3 = ''Constituency established''<br />
| successor3 = [[Geeta Mukherjee]]<br />
| term_start3 = 1977<br />
| term_end3 = 1980<br />
| office4 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start4 = 1952<br />
| term_end4 = 1957<br />
| constituency4 = [[Khejuri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Khejuri]]<br />
| alongside4 = Koustav Kanti Karan<br />
| predecessor4 = ''Constituency established''<br />
| successor4 = Abanti Kumar Das<br />
| term_start5 = 1962<br />
| term_end5 = 1969<br />
| predecessor5 = Basanta Kumar Panda<br/>Bhikhari Mondal<br />
| successor5 = Prasanta Kumar Pradhan<br />
| constituency5 = [[Bhagabanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bhagabanpur]]<br />
| birth_date = 22 April 1925<br />
| death_date = 1 January 1994<br />
| birth_place = Kalicharanpur, [[Midnapore district|Midnapore]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| party = [[Janata Party]]<br />
| otherparty = [[Bharatiya Lok Dal]]<br/>[[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| 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><br />
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'''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.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
She was educated at [[Bethune College]].{{cn|date=December 2020}}<br />
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== Career ==<br />
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]]. <br />
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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><br />
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She was elected to [[Lok Sabha]] in 1977 from [[Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency)|Panskura]] in [[West Bengal]] on the [[Janata Party]] ticket.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2447.htm Abha Maiti profile]<br />
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