Meet the Youngest Lok Sabha MP, Chandrani Murmu

Chandrani Murmu became the youngest member of the Lok Sabha when she was elected as the Keonjhar MP.

Meet Chandrani Murmu. Just 25 years, 11 months and eight days old and she will soon step into Parliament setting history as the youngest member of the Lok Sabha. She contested on a Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ticket and won against two-time BJP MP Ananta Nayak by a difference of 66,203 votes. She is now elected to be the MP from Keonjhar Lok Sabha seat (reserved for Scheduled Tribes).

She completed her B Tech from the city-based SOA University in 2017. She was on the lookout for a job, when she stumbled upon this opportunity.

“I will learn something new every day as long as I am a politician and I want to keep my personality intact and not change to fit into a politician’s mould. I don’t want to get swayed by power and I never want to lose my originality that differentiates me from the rest,” she said, quoted by She The People.