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Roshan Warjri
Roshan Warjri scripted history when she became the first woman to hold the crucial home Minister portfolio in the matrilineal state of Meghalaya and she is also the second woman in the country to hold this portfolio. Warjri was the first woman in the northeast and eastern India to hold the crucial department. She was a chairperson of Meghalaya State Commission for Women. She first got elected to the legislative assembly in 1993 from North Shillong constituency and got re-elected in 1998 state election on congress ticket. She came back to politics after a break in 2013 state election. She is currently the Minister of Higher and Technical Education Cooperation Department , Health & Family Welfare Department and Law Department. She is also the second woman in India after P. Sabita Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh to become home minister.
A third-time legislator, Warjri is the widow of Korbar Sing Phanbuh, a legislator of the erstwhile Hill People's Union. After the demise of her husband, Warjri joined electoral politics and was elected to the assembly two times consecutively, in 1993 and 1998, on the Hill People's Union and United Democratic Party tickets respectively.
