Agatha Kongkal Sangma is an Indian politician. A former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing the Tura constituency of Meghalaya. At the age of 29, she was the youngest member of parliament ever in India to be appointed Union Minister in the Government of India to date. Sangma is the second woman from Northeast India to be appointed a union minister in the Government of India. Sangma received her LLB degree from Pune University and later joined the bar at Delhi High Court. She earned her master's degree in environmental management at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Sangma was first elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in a by-election in May 2008, after her father P.A. Sangma resigned from the seat to enter state politics. Later she was re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha. Sangma was the Minister of State for Rural Development. She resigned from this post during the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012.
She contested the Meghalaya legislative assembly election from the South Tura constituency and polled 6,499 votes winning the seat. But she submitted her resignation as a member of the House in an attempt to pave the way for her brother to contest the by-poll from her constituency.
Agatha Sangma was born in New Delhi in 1980. She is the daughter of P. A. Sangma, the former speaker of the Lok Sabha, and Soradini K. Sangma. Her brother Conrad Sangma is the Chief Minister in the Meghalaya State Assembly. Agatha married Patrick Rongma Marak, a physician, on 21 November 2019.
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* Updated on 18/03/2025
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