Ritu Khanduri Age, Caste, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Full name	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan [1]My Neta
Profession	Politician
Famous for	Being chosen as the first woman speaker at the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in March 2022
Physical Stats & More
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Politics
Political Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Political Journey	• 2017: MLA from the Yamkeshwar constituency of Uttarakhand • 2022: MLA from the Kotdwar constituency of Uttarakhand Note: In March 2022, she was appointed as the first woman speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Personal Life
Date of Birth	29 January 1965 (Friday)
Age (as of 2022)	57 Years
Birthplace	Pauri, Uttarakhand
Zodiac sign	Aquarius
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Pauri, Uttarakhand
College/University	• Raghunath Girls College, Meerut University • Rajasthan University
Educational Qualification(s)	• 1986: BA Honors from Raghunath Girls College, Meerut University [2]Amar Ujala • Post-graduation from Rajasthan University [3]The Times of India
Address	305, Som Vihar Apartment R.K.Puram, South West, Delhi 110022
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Husband	Rajesh Bhushan (IAS officer)
Children	She has two children.
Parents	Father- Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri (former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand) Mother- Aruna Khanduri Grandfather- Jai Ballabh Khanduri (journalist) Grandmother- Durga Devi Khanduri (social activist)
Siblings	Brother- Manish Khanduri (politician) Note: She has two siblings.
Money Factor
Assets/Properties [4]My Neta	Movable Assets Cash: Rs. 50,000 Deposits in Banks: Rs. 24,50,515 Bonds, Debentures and Shares: Rs. 13,51,772 LIC or other insurance Policies: Rs. 6,65,012 Motor Vehicles: Rs. 8,20,000 Jewellery : Rs. 24,00,000 Gross Total Value: Rs. 70,72,317 Immovable Assets Agricultural Land: Rs. 32,00,000 Non Agricultural Land: Rs. 80,80,400 Commercial Buildings: Rs. 20,00,000 Residential Buildings: Rs. 1,35,00,000 Total: Rs. 2,67,80,400 Liabilities Loans from Banks: Rs. 1,50,345
Net Worth (approx.) (as of 2017) [5]My Neta	Rs. 3.37 crores

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ritu Khanduri

• Ritu Khanduri is an Indian politician. In 2022, she won the assembly elections from the Kotdwar constituency of Uttarakhand, and soon after winning the assembly elections, she was appointed as the first woman speaker of the Legislative Assembly in Uttarakhand. Ritu Khanduri is the president of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttarakhand Mahila Morcha unit.

• Ritu Khanduri’s father, BC Khanduri, was appointed as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand twice from 2007 to 2009, and again from 2011 to 2012. BC Khanduri is a retired Major General from the Indian Army, and he is the recipient of the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 1982.

• From 2006 to 2017, Ritu Khanduri was a teacher at Amity University in Noida. In a conversation with a media house, one of the family members of Ritu Khanduri stated that Ritu was happy with her teaching job, and she ventured into politics at the behest of her father. Her family member said,
  

  She was a teacher and she was very happy with her teaching job. She had initial hesitancy in taking the political plunge but did so at the behest of her father. The reluctance was initial, because now she is fully invested in politics. She was crestfallen after being denied the ticket (from Yamkeshwar) because she had nurtured the constituency really well.”

• In 2012, Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri lost the assembly elections from the Kotdwar seat to his opponent Surendra Singh Negi. He then distanced himself from politics. Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri’s legacy was taken over by his daughter, Ritu Khanduri. In 2017, Ritu Khanduri contested the assembly elections from Yamkeshwar seat for the first time and defeated former minister Surendra Singh Negi.

• In 2022, Ritu Khanduri was denied a party ticket from her Yamkeshwar constituency; however, she was asked to contest the assembly elections from the Kotdwar constituency by Bharatiya Janata Party, and she won the MLA elections. Soon after the win, in a press conference, Ritu Khanduri thanked the voters of Kotdwar for choosing her as their representative. She said,
  

  First of all, I want to thank the party high command and voters of Kotdwar for reposing faith in me. It is exactly a decade when my father had also contested from here and will work hard to ensure development and local people’s issues are taken up and solved.”

• Ritu Khanduri’s brother Manish Khanduri is a member of the Indian National Congress, who contested the Lok Sabha polls from the Garhwal constituency in 2019 but lost the elections.

• In 2022, she was appointed as the sixth speaker of the Uttarakhand assembly. BJP’s Prakash Pant was the first speaker of the state.