constituency date children birth_place party office birth_date term residence spouse article_title name
janjgir 1950 8 1 y 1 son and 1 daughter gwalior , madhya pradesh bharatiya janata party -lrb- 1982-2013 -rrb- member of parliament 1 august 1950 2009 - 2014 raipur madhav shukla karuna shukla
 karuna shukla
karuna shukla

karuna shukla -lrb- born 1 august 1950 -rrb- is a member of the 14th lok sabha of india .
she represented the janjgir constituency of chhattisgarh and was a member of the bharatiya janata party -lrb- bjp -rrb- political party .
she lost the 2009 elections from korba to charan das mahant of the indian national congress .
she resigned from the bjp on 25 october 2013 citing that the party was `` allegedly under the grip of power politics '' .
notably , karuna is the niece of former prime minister atal bihari vajpayee .
after having ended her 32-year-long association with bjp , on february 27 , 2014 , she joined indian national congress and will contest 2014 loksabha election from bilaspur constituency in chhattisgarh .
