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| image = Bibhu Kumari Devi.jpg<br />
| caption = Devi with her son<br />
| occupation = Political activist<br />
| module =<br />
{{Infobox royalty|embed=yes<br />
| predecessor = [[Kanchan Prava Devi]]<br />
| title = Rajmata<br />
| religion = Hindu <br />
| father = Raja Lav Shah<br />
| mother = <br />
}}<br />
| module2 =<br />
{{Infobox officeholder|embed=yes<br />
| office2 = Member of [[All India Congress Committee]]<br />
| termstart2 = 1991<br />
| office = [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha|Member]] of [[Lok Sabha]], [[Tripura East (Lok Sabha Constituency)|Tripura East]]<br />
| predecessor = Kirit Bikram Deb Barman([[Indian National Congress|INC]])<br />
| successor = [[Baju Ban Riyan]]([[CPIM]])<br />
| termstart = 20 June 1991<br />
| termend = 10 May 1996<br />
| office3 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]], [[Agartala]]<br />
| predecessor3 = [[Manik Sarkar]]<br />
| successor3 = [[Nripen Chakraborty]]<br />
| termstart3 = 1988<br />
| termend3 = 1993<br />
}}<br />
| fetchwikidata = ALL<br />
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'''Bibhu Kumari Devi''' (born 28 June 1944) is the current head of the Royal Family of Tripura. [[Indian National Congress]] politician and former member of the [[10th Lok Sabha]].<br />
==Early life==<br />
Daughter to Raja Lav Shah, Bibhu Kumari was born on 28 June 1944 in [[Mussoorie]] (then in [[United Provinces (1937–50)|United Provinces]]).<ref name="LS">{{cite web|title=Members Bioprofile: Bibhu Kumari Devi, Maharani|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3475.htm|publisher=[[Lok Sabha]]|accessdate=25 November 2017}}</ref> She's the daughter-in-law of [[Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman]] and graduated from the [[Isabella Thoburn College]] in Lucknow.<ref name="LS" /><ref name="Prakash2007">{{cite book|last=Prakash|first= Ved|title=Encyclopaedia of North-East India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixSANFgMjW0C&pg=PA2281|year=2007|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0707-6|page=2281}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Devi is a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) and entered the [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]] in 1983. The same year she was included in the [[All India Congress Committee]]. From 1989 to 1991, she served as the Minister for Revenue and Local Self-Government in the Tripura state government, when the INC made her its candidate for the [[1991 Indian general election|1991 general elections]] from [[Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Tripura East constituency]] reserved for [[scheduled tribes]]. She defeated [[Baju Ban Riyan]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] to become a member of the [[10th Lok Sabha]].<ref name="LS" /><br />
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In 1998, Devi refused to contest in the Tripura legislative elections after the INC fielded her for the Matabari seat.<ref>{{cite web|author1=United News of India|author-link=United News of India|title=Congress changes candidates|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/jan/29trip.htm|publisher=[[Rediff.com]]|accessdate=25 November 2017|date=29 January 1998}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Devi married the last [[King of Tripura]], [[Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman]] from whom she had one son and two daughters.<ref name="LS" /> Her husband and son [[Kirit Pradyot Deb Barman]] were also members of the INC.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tripura: Cong leader quits citing mistreatment|url=http://www.news18.com/news/politics/tripura-cong-leader-quits-citing-mistreatment-525953.html|publisher=[[CNN-News18]]|accessdate=25 November 2017|date=10 December 2012}}</ref> In 2015, a local court in Tripura ordered the state government to hand over [[Neermahal]] palace and [[Rudrasagar Lake]] to Devi.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tripura royal property|url=http://www.thestatesman.com/northeast/tripura-royal-property-69442.html|accessdate=25 November 2017|work=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|date=15 January 2015}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1994 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Women members of the Lok Sabha]]<br />
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Tripura]]<br />
[[Category:10th Lok Sabha members]]<br />
[[Category:People from Mussoorie]]<br />
[[Category:People from Agartala]]<br />
[[Category:Isabella Thoburn College alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Tripura]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the Tripura Legislative Assembly]]<br />
[[Category:Tripuri people]]<br />
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