Veena Shahi

Veena Shahi is an Indian politician. She defeated Brishin Patel of JD(U) in 2000 in the Bihar Legislative Assembly election at Vaishali. She was also the Co-Operative minister in Third Rabri Devi ministry. She is the widow of Hemant Kumar Shahi (son of veteran Congress leader Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi).[1]

Veena Shahi is an Indian politician and entrepreneur who was born on January 5, 1953, in Sitamarhi, India. She was born into the Mahant family of Sitamarhi as the eldest daughter of the Late Mahant Raghunath Das and the Late Saraswati Devi. Veena completed her schooling at Mt. CARMEL, Patna, where she excelled in academics and extracurricular activities. She later graduated with a B.A. Honors in Political Science from Patna Women's College.

Veena married Hemant Shahi, son of Congress leader Late Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi, in 1977. The couple started a successful bus-playing business in 1982, which went on to become one of the biggest bus-playing services in Bihar - Shahi Tirupati.

Tragedy struck in March 1992 when Veena's husband Hemant was assassinated. Veena then contested and won the MLA elections from Vaishali, Bihar, on a Congress ticket. Veena has a daughter named Vidisha Shahi.