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Apr 13, 1940 Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India 84 years old
Governor of Manipur
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About Najma Heptulla
- Najma Akbar Ali Heptulla (born 13 April 1940) is an Indian politician and Governor of Manipur and the Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, and former vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and a six time member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian parliament, between 1980 and 2016, and Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for sixteen years.
- She was a member representing Rajasthan from July 2004 to July 2010.
- She was nominated by the BJP for the Rajya Sabha in 2012 from Madhya Pradesh, and assumed her office on 24 April 2012.She is a second cousin to actor Aamir Khan and grand niece of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
- She contested the 13th vice-presidential election held in August 2007 but lost to Hamid Ansari by 233 votes.
- She took oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi headed government on 26 May 2014 and was replaced by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in July 2016.
