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'''Kusum Rai''' (born 14 August 1968) is an Indian politician.<ref>[http://www.india-today.com/itoday/05041999/up.html ]{{dead link|date=April 2021}}</ref> She is a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]],<ref>[http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/kusum-rai-is-bjp-candidate/384076/ ]{{dead link|date=April 2021}}</ref> the upper house of the [[Indian Parliament]].<br />
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She is a leader of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. She is a senior woman leader of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and a former chairperson of the UP Women Commission and also the national vice-president of the party's Mahila Morcha.<ref>{{cite news<br />
| url = http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/kusum-rai-is-bjp-candidate/384076/<br />
| title = Rai is BJP candidate<br />
| publisher = [[The Indian Express]]<br />
| date = 2008-11-11<br />
| accessdate = 2009-03-31<br />
}}</ref> She is the protégé of [[Kalyan Singh]] whom she considers like her [[father]] and calls him ''Babuji'' but has parted ways with him.<ref>{{cite news<br />
| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Kusum_rejects_bicycle_pillion_ride/rssarticleshow/4019791.cms<br />
| title = Kusum rejects bicycle pillion ride<br />
| author = Manjari Mishra<br />
| work = [[The Times of India]]<br />
| date = 2009-01-23<br />
| accessdate = 2009-03-31<br />
}}</ref> Earlier she was also the [[Cabinet Minister]] of [[Public Works Department]] in the [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite news<br />
| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-10-11/lucknow/27182897_1_ayodhya-issue-saffron-brigade-bjp<br />
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121023155643/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-10-11/lucknow/27182897_1_ayodhya-issue-saffron-brigade-bjp<br />
| url-status = dead<br />
| archive-date = 2012-10-23<br />
| title = UP will not become another Gujarat: Rai<br />
| work = [[The Times of India]]<br />
| date = 2003-10-11<br />
| accessdate = 2009-03-31<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
She belongs to a [[Bhumihar]] family from Azamgarh.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}<br />
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[[Category:People from Azamgarh]]<br />
[[Category:Women in Uttar Pradesh politics]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:1968 births]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Varanasi]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Lucknow]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian women politicians]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council]]<br />
[[Category:Samajwadi Party politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Women members of the Rajya Sabha]]<br />
[[Category:State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
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