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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Chandresh Kumari Katoch
|native_name =
|image = File:Chandresh Kumari Katoch.jpg
|caption =
|office = [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Minister of Culture]]
|term_start = 2012
|term_end = 2014
|alongside =
|vicepresident = [[Hamid Ansari]]
|president = [[Pranab Mukherjee]]
|primeminister = [[Manmohan Singh]]
|predecessor = [[Kumari Selja]]
|successor = [[Shripad Yasso Naik]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sarkaritel.com/ministries/ministrydetail.php?min_id=16|title = Ministries, Government of India Ministry of Culture}}</ref>
|prior_term =
|office2 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]]
|term_start2 = 2009
|term_end2 = 2014
|vicepresident2 = [[Hamid Ansari]]
|president2 = [[Pranab Mukherjee]]
|primeminister2 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
|predecessor2 = [[Jaswant Singh Bishnoi]]
| successor2 = [[Gajendra Singh Shekhawat]]
|constituency2 = [[Jodhpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jodhpur]]
|term_start3 = 1984
|term_end3 = 1989
|vicepresident3 = [[R. Venkataraman]]
|president3 = [[Zail Singh]]
|primeminister3 = [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|predecessor3 = Vikram Chand Mahajan
|constituency3 = [[Kangra (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kangra]]
|birth_name = Chandresh Kumari Katoch
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1944|2|1}}
|birth_place = [[Jodhpur]], [[Jodhpur State]], [[British India]]
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]
|spouse = Aditya Katoch (1968–present)
|children = Aishwarya Singh (born 1970)
|residence = [[New Delhi]] (official)<br />[[Jodhpur]] (private)
|alma_mater = University of Jodhpur (now [[Jai Narain Vyas University]])
|religion =
}}
'''Maharani Chandresh Kumari Katoch''' (born 1 February 1944) is an Indian politician belonging to the [[Indian National Congress]] party. She is a former Minister of Culture in India's central government. She was a [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] in the [[Lok Sabha]] (the lower house of parliament), representing [[Jodhpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jodhpur constituency]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/lssnew/members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=2994 |title=Lok Sabha |access-date=28 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201161802/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=2994 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Katoch was sworn in as Cabinet Minister in the [[Government of India]] on 28 October 2012, and was given the portfolio of the [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Ministry of Culture]].<ref>[http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/jodhpur-s-chandresh-kumari-inducted-in-cabinet_808047.html Jodhpur`s Chandresh Kumari inducted in Cabinet]</ref> She is daughter of [[Maharaja]] [[Hanwant Singh]] of Jodhpur and [[Maharani]] [[Krishna Kumari (regent)|Krishna Kumari]] and is married into the royal family of [[Kangra district|Kangra]] with [[Raja Aditya Dev Chand Katoch]], in [[Himachal Pradesh]].<ref>[http://www.royalkangra.com/presentfamilyandtheirbusinesses.htm Royal Kangra / Present Family and their Businesses] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722143010/http://www.royalkangra.com/presentfamilyandtheirbusinesses.htm |date=22 July 2013 }}</ref> She contested but lost in the [[2014 Indian general election]].<ref>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Election-Results-Rajasthan-royals-swept-away-in-Modi-tsunami/articleshow/35225169.cms</ref>

==Positions held==
*1972–77 Member, [[Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]( from Dharamshala constituency)
*1977 Deputy Minister, [[Government of Himachal Pradesh]]
*1982–84 Member, Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (second term from Dharamshala constituency)
*1984 (for 9 Months) Minister of State, Tourism, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh
*1984 Elected to [[8th Lok Sabha]] from [[Kangra (Lok Sabha constituency)]]
*1996 Elected to [[Rajya Sabha]]
*1998–1999 Deputy Chief Whip, Congress Party in Rajya Sabha
*1999-03 President, [[All India Mahila Congress]]
*2003–07 Member, Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (third term from Dharamshala constituency)
*2003–2004 Cabinet Minister, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh
*2009 Re-elected to [[15th Lok Sabha]] from [[Jodhpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jodhpur]] (2nd term)
*2012 Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Cultural, Government of India.

==References==
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