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Sheila Dikshit

1938 - 2019

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Sheila Dikshit (pronounced [ˈʃiːlaː ˈdiːkʂɪt] ) (née Kapoor; 31 March 1938 – 20 July 2019) was an Indian politician. The longest-serving chief minister of Delhi, as well as the longest-serving female chief minister in Indian history, she served for a period of 15 years beginning in 1998. Dikshit led the Indian National Congress party to three consecutive electoral victories in Delhi. Dikshit lost the December 2013 elections of the Delhi Legislative Assembly to the Bharatiya Janata Party, though Aam Aadmi Party formed a minority government with outside support from the INC, with Arvind Kejriwal as the chief minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sheila Dikshit is the 16,594th most popular politician (down from 14,940th in 2019), the 838th most popular biography from India (down from 654th in 2019) and the 220th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sheila Dikshit ranks 16,594 out of 19,576. Before her are Pandeli Majko, Alfred Sant, Ernst Benda, Django Sissoko, Ann Richards, and Ted Stevens. After her are Jack Layton, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Pierre Joxe, César Villanueva, Malu Dreyer, and Joseph Urusemal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Sheila Dikshit ranks 530. Before her are Boris Mayorov, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Jorge Manicera, Nikolay Smaga, Judy Blume, and Jorge Mendonça. After her are Alton Ellis, Rita Achkina, Achim Müller, Heidi Schmid, Marilyn Ferguson, and Carlos Contreras. Among people deceased in 2019, Sheila Dikshit ranks 481. Before her are Hal Blaine, Alvin Sargent, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Wallace Smith Broecker, Elwyn Berlekamp, and W. S. Merwin. After her are Clive Swift, Bruno Nicolè, Aleksey Buldakov, Basil Heatley, Edward Seaga, and Raymond Leppard.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sheila Dikshit ranks 838 out of 1,861. Before her are Parveen Sultana (1950), Renuka Chowdhury (1954), Veerappan (1952), Vijay Amritraj (1953), Peter Sarstedt (1941), and Roopa Ganguly (1966). After her are Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Naveen Patnaik (1946), Goutam Ghose (1950), Persis Khambatta (1948), Monier Monier-Williams (1819), and Fareed Zakaria (1964).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sheila Dikshit ranks 220. Before her are Surendranath Banerjee (1848), Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896), Yogi Adityanath (1972), S. M. Krishna (1932), M. K. Stalin (1953), and Renuka Chowdhury (1954). After her are Naveen Patnaik (1946), Kalyan Singh (1932), Madhavrao I (1745), Baji Rao II (1775), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), and George Fernandes (1930).

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