Anjali Nimbalkar

Anjali Nimbalkar was born on 22 August 1976 into a Hindu family in Khanapur, Karnataka. She holds a MBBS degree from Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai obtained in 1998 and a Master of Surgery in Obstetrics and gynaecology from DY Patil School of Medicine, Navi Mumbai in 2010.

She is married to Hemant Nimbalkar, an officer with the Indian Police Service.^[5][6]

During a Goa–New Delhi flight on 15 December 2025, Anjali administered CPR to an American passenger who suffered a mid-air medical emergency, after she fainted and lost her pulse, helping to stabilise her condition. Following the incident, Anjali was commended by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.^[7]

In 2018, Anjali Nimbalkar contested the election from Khanapur in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election and won against Vithal Halagekar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).^[8][9] She secured a total of 36,649 votes, defeating Halagekar by a margin of 5,133 votes.^[8] Nimbalkar protested the salary hike under the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill, 2022, by the Government of Karnataka, and requested the government to spend the same money to provide better facilities to the citizens.

She organized a padyatra to highlight issues of poor and neglected communities from her constituency.^[9] In the 2023 Assembly election, she lost to Halagekar by a margin of more than 54,000 votes.^[10]

In the 2024 general election to the Lok Sabha, she contested the Uttara Kannada constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress.^[11] However, she was not successful in this election.^[12]