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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Chhabila Netam<br />
| image = <br />
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| office = Member of the [[11th Lok Sabha]] for [[Kanker (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanker]]<br />
| term_start = 1996<br />
| term_end = 1998<br />
| majority = 24,420<br />
| predecessor = [[Arvind Netam]]<br />
| successor = [[Sohan Potai]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1948|5|22}}<br />
| birth_place = Bhaismundi, [[Bastar district]], [[Chhattisgarh]], India<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Chhabila Arvind Netam''' (born 22 May 1948) is an [[Indian National Congress]] politician and member of the [[11th Lok Sabha]] from the [[Kanker (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanker]] reserved constituency.<ref>{{cite book|title=Economic and Political Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-uwAAAAIAAJ|volume=31|year=1996|publisher=Sameeksha Trust|page=1690}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Chhabila was born on 22 May 1948 in Bhaismundi village of [[Bastar district]] and did her matriculation from a local [[Education in India|government school]].<ref name="LS">{{cite web|title=Biographical Sketch: Netam, Smt. Chhabila Arvind|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3736.htm|publisher=[[Lok Sabha]]|accessdate=20 November 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
During the [[1996 Indian general election]], the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) party denied a ticket to [[Arvind Netam]] because his name surfaced in the [[Hawala scandal]] and instead made his wife Chhabila its official candidate.<ref name="Kumari1998">{{cite book|last=Kumari|first=Abhilasha|title=Crossing the Sacred Line: Women's Search for Political Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hbcu_r-qI5cC&pg=PA53|year=1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1435-5|page=53}}</ref><ref name="Rediff">{{cite web|title=Congress makes a desperate comeback attempt in Kanker|url=http://m.rediff.com/election/1999/sep/20kanker.htm|publisher=[[Rediff.com]]|accessdate=20 November 2017|date=20 September 1999}}</ref> She polled 219,191 votes and defeated [[Sohan Potai]] of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (194,771 votes) to become the [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] from [[Kanker (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanker]] seat reserved for [[scheduled tribes]].<ref name="LS" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1996 to the Eleventh Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_II_LS96.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=21 November 2017|page=235}}</ref> However the house was dissolved well within one and a half years and Netam did not contest the election held in 1998.<ref name="Rediff" /><ref>{{cite web|title=12th Lok Sabha had the shortest life-span|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/apr/26ls.htm|publisher=[[Rediff.com]]|accessdate=21 November 2017|date=26 April 1999}}</ref> She stood in the [[1999 Indian general election]] but lost to Potai by a difference of 88,191 votes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1999 to the Thirteenth Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=20 November 2017|page=155}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Chhabila married Netam in May 1969 and together they have four children; two sons and two daughters.<ref name="LS" /> One of their daughters, Preeti Netam contested the [[2008 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Two tribal women to fight it out for Kanker constituency|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/Two-tribal-women-to-fight-it-out-for-Kanker-constituency/article15337661.ece|accessdate=20 November 2017|work=[[The Hindu]]|agency=[[Press Trust of India]]|date=8 November 2008}}</ref><br />
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