<p>Mumbai: Just after the phone call came to Raksha Khadse, she broke down. At at the age of 37, she had faced many challenges - and she could not control her emotions. </p><p>Raksha Khadse is a three-time Lok Sabha MP from Raver in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. </p><p>In the 2024 general elections, she defeated Shriram Dayaram Patil of NCP (SP). </p><p>From being a Sarpanch to becoming a Central minister, the journey has been interesting.</p>.Modi Government 3.0 | Ramdas Athawale: The poet, painter, activist, minister, actor .<p>Raksha’s inclusion into the Narendra Modi government signals that her father-in-law Eknath Khadse, who is currently an MLC of Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) would soon return to BJP, this parent party - that he had left owing to differences with BJP’s pointsperson Devendra Fadnavis. </p><p>Eknath Khadse hails from Muktainagar in Jalgaon and belongs to the Leva-Patil OBC community. Eknath Khadse’s daughter Rohini Khadse is the women wing chief of NCP (SP).</p><p>Raksha Khadse was born Priyanka Patel at Khetia in Madhya Pradesh on 13 May 1987.</p><p>She has completed BSc (Computer Science).</p><p>Her husband Nikhil Khadse passed away on May 1, 2013.</p><p>From 2010-2012, she was the Sarpanch of Kothali Gram Panchayat and from 2012-2014, she served as Member of Jalgaon Zilla Parishad. Having learnt the first lessons of politics from her father-in-law, who was part of the teams of Pramod Mahajan and Gopinath Munde, she got a big break in 2014, when she was just 26, to contest the Lok Sabha seat, from where she created a hattrick this time. </p>
<p>Mumbai: Just after the phone call came to Raksha Khadse, she broke down. At at the age of 37, she had faced many challenges - and she could not control her emotions. </p><p>Raksha Khadse is a three-time Lok Sabha MP from Raver in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. </p><p>In the 2024 general elections, she defeated Shriram Dayaram Patil of NCP (SP). </p><p>From being a Sarpanch to becoming a Central minister, the journey has been interesting.</p>.Modi Government 3.0 | Ramdas Athawale: The poet, painter, activist, minister, actor .<p>Raksha’s inclusion into the Narendra Modi government signals that her father-in-law Eknath Khadse, who is currently an MLC of Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) would soon return to BJP, this parent party - that he had left owing to differences with BJP’s pointsperson Devendra Fadnavis. </p><p>Eknath Khadse hails from Muktainagar in Jalgaon and belongs to the Leva-Patil OBC community. Eknath Khadse’s daughter Rohini Khadse is the women wing chief of NCP (SP).</p><p>Raksha Khadse was born Priyanka Patel at Khetia in Madhya Pradesh on 13 May 1987.</p><p>She has completed BSc (Computer Science).</p><p>Her husband Nikhil Khadse passed away on May 1, 2013.</p><p>From 2010-2012, she was the Sarpanch of Kothali Gram Panchayat and from 2012-2014, she served as Member of Jalgaon Zilla Parishad. Having learnt the first lessons of politics from her father-in-law, who was part of the teams of Pramod Mahajan and Gopinath Munde, she got a big break in 2014, when she was just 26, to contest the Lok Sabha seat, from where she created a hattrick this time. </p>