Chandresh Kumari Katoch

Chandresh Kumari Katoch
Chandresh Kumari Katoch
Minister of Culture
	In office; 2012–2014
President	Pranab Mukherjee
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Vice President	Hamid Ansari
Preceded by	Kumari Selja
Succeeded by	Shripad Yasso Naik[1]
Member of Parliament
	In office; 2009–2014
President	Pranab Mukherjee
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Vice President	Hamid Ansari
Preceded by	Jaswant Singh Bishnoi
Succeeded by	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Constituency	Jodhpur
	In office; 1984–1989
President	Zail Singh
Prime Minister	Rajiv Gandhi
Vice President	R. Venkataraman
Preceded by	Vikram Chand Mahajan
Constituency	Kangra
Personal details
Born	Chandresh Kumari Katoch; 1 February 1944; Jodhpur, Jodhpur State, British India
Political party	Congress
Spouse(s)	Aditya Katoch (1968–present)
Children	Aishwarya Singh (born 1970)
Residence	New Delhi (official); Jodhpur (private)
Alma mater	University of Jodhpur (now Jai Narain Vyas University)

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 in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of parliament), representing Jodhpur constituency.[2] 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.[3] She is daughter of Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur and Maharani Krishna Kumari and is married into the royal family of Kangra with Raja Aditya Dev Chand Katoch, in Himachal Pradesh.[4] She contested but lost in the 2014 Indian general election.[5]

Positions held

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