Sumitra Mahajan
Ex Speaker Lok Sabha

She started her political career as a corporator in the Indore Municipal Corporation in 1982. She is the second woman to be elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. She represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019 as a longest serving Woman Member of Parliament.

Kumari Selja
Ex MP, INC

She entered the political fray in 1990 as the President of Mahila Congress. She was the cabinet minister at the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the UPA government. She is currently the President of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee

Amee Yagnik
MP, Rajya Sabha, INC

She is a practicing lawyer and significant part of her legal practice has been on gender justice related work which includes pro bono legal aid for women and legal awareness campaigns for women and their legal rights at grass roots level. She is one of the founder members and immediate Past President of All India Federation of Women Lawyers, a national organization that works with women lawyers for the betterment of women and children.

Priyanka Chaturvedi
MP, Rajya Sabha, Shiv Sena

As a trustee of two NGOs, she works to promote children’s education, women’s empowerment and health. She also runs a book review blog which is amongst the top ten weblogs on books in India. She is a Deputy Leader of Shiv Sena.

Neerja Chowdhury
Senior Journalist and Political Commentator

She is recipient of several media awards and has covered all the major Political Parties, as also Parliament and elections state and national for the last 30 years. She was political editor of the Indian Express for ten years and of the Economic Times. Currently she is doing regular columns for the Times of India, Economic Times, The Scroll and Amar Ujala.

Kumkum Chadha
Political journalist and an author

She has written extensively on prison systems and prisoners in India and gender issues, and served as a member, national committee on conditions of women prisoners. She has been conferred national awards for political and investigative journalism.

Sumitra Mahajan
Ex Speaker Lok Sabha

She started her political career as a corporator in the Indore Municipal Corporation in 1982. She is the second woman to be elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. She represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019 as a longest serving Woman Member of Parliament.