Anjali Nimbalkar | |
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Member of Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2018–2023 | |
Constituency | Khanapur |
Preceded by | Arvind Chandrakant Patil |
Succeeded by | Vithal Halagekar |
Personal details | |
Born | Khanapur, Karnataka, India | 22 August 1976
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Spouse | Hemant Nimbalkar |
Relations | Ashok Shankarrao Chavan |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | LTMMC, Mumbai |
Profession |
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Anjali Nimbalkar is an Indian physician and politician. She is a senior leader and spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC).[1] She represents Khanapur of Belgaum district at the Karnataka Legislative Assembly since 2018.[2][3] She has been announced as the INC candidate for the Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 Indian general election.
Nimbalkar holds MBBS degree with masters in Gynaecology and Laparoscopy. She is one of the ten doctors elected to make it to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.[4]
Anjali Nimbalkar was born on 22 August 1976 into a Hindu family in Khanapur, Belagavi district of Karnataka. She is married to Hemant Nimbalkar, an officer with the Indian Police Service.[5][6]
In 2018, Nimbalkar contested election from Khanapur in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election and won against Vithal Halagekar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).[7][8] Nimbalkar protested salary hike under the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill, 2022 by the Government of Karnataka and requested government to spend same money to give better facilities to the citizens.[9][10] She organized padyatra to highlight issues of poor and neglected communities from her constituency.[11]
In the 2023 Assembly election, she lost to Halagekar by a margin of more than 54,000 votes.[12] In the 2024 general election to the Lok Sabha, she contested the Uttara Kannada constituency.[13]