Seema Kumari

Kumari is married to Vinod Kumar.^[3]

Kumari was elected sarpanch of Lahri village in 2008 and in 2012 was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Bhoa,^[4] a constituency then reserved for candidates from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.^[2] Then aged 33, she was the youngest member of the assembly.^[5]

Kumari stood as a candidate in the 2017 state assembly elections but faced criticism because of suspicions regarding an increase in her income.^[6] Described as the poorest MLA in the state in 2012, based on her declared assets in an election affidavit, they had grown almost 30-fold by 2017.^[5] She lost her seat in Bhoa to Joginder Pal of the Indian National Congress.^[7]