Women in Uttarakhand politics :

Rita Bahuguna Joshi :

Rita Bahuguna Joshi (born 22 July 1949) is an Indian politician and cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. She was the president of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee from 2007 to 2012. She is the daughter of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, a former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. She joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 October 2016. She won General Loksabha election, 2019 from Allahabad and Became the Member of Parliament.

Rita Bahuguna Joshi is daughter of Late H.N.Bahuguna, former Chief Minister of UP. Her mother, Late Kamla Bahuguna, was an ex-MP. She holds an MA and a PhD in History and is a professor in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Allahabad. She is also a recipient of a United Nations Award of Excellence as being among the "Most Distinguished Women Mayor in South Asia. She authored two history books before joining the Indian National Congress.

Political career: Rita Bahuguna held the post of mayor of Allahabad from 1995-2000. She is a former vice-president of the National Council of Women, has been president of the All India Mahila Congress since 2003 and of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee since September 2007. She has twice contested unsuccessfully in elections to the Lok Sabha. the lower house of the Parliament of India. She was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Lucknow Cantonment in the 2012 state elections.She contested for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Lucknow and lost.

She joined BJP on 20-Oct-2016 in presence of BJP president Amit Shah after spending 24 years in Congress 

Indira Hridayesh  :

Indira Hridayesh (born 7 April 1941) is an Indian National Congress leader, MLA as well as Leader of Opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in India. She was elected from Haldwani constituency in the 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election. She was minister of Finance in Uttarakhand 2012 to 2017 , Parliamentary Affairs, Higher Education, and Planning in Government of Uttarakhand under Harish Rawat.

Asha Nautiyal :

Asha Nautiyal (born 25 June 1969) is an Indian politician. She was Kedarnath MLA 2002 and 2007 as a member of the Bhartiya Janta Party.

Political life :

• 1997-1998 BJP vice president Rudraprayag
• 1999 Mahila Morcha president Rudraprayag district
• 2002 MLA Kedarnath
• 2007 MLA Kedarnath
• 2009-2012 Parliamentary Secretary

Ila Pant :

Ila Pant (born 10 March 1938) is an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament in 12th Lok Sabha from Nainital constituency of Uttar Pradesh (now part of Uttarakhand). She is the wife of former minister K. C. Pant.

Ila Pant was born in Nainital (then part of Uttar Pradesh ) on 10 March 1938. She is the daughter of Shobha and Govind Ballabh Pande. She graduated from the University of Allahabad with a Bachelor of Arts degree. 

Politics : Ila Pant's father-in-law Govind Ballabh Pant was a senior Indian National Congress leader, and her husband went on to become a minister as well. She won the 1998 general election as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, winning 38.52% of the votes in the Nainital constituency. She defeated the former Chief Minister and Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari by a margin of 15,557 votes. During 1998-99, she served as a member of the Committee on External Affairs and of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs. She has also served on the Board of Governors of the Pant Nagar University, and as a Secretary of the G.B. Pant Memorial Society in New Delhi.

Kamla Pant :

Kamla Pant, born (18 December 1956), Chamoli Garhwal (Uttarakhand), is a feminist, politician and women's rights activist. She is also known for her work in the Uttarakhand movement, which resulted in Uttarkhand becoming a separate Indian state in 2000.

Born to a working-class family, Pant started taking part in various student movements while she was in school. Her social activism started when she came in contact with activists involved in the Chipko movement. She has a postgraduate in Arts and also holds a law degree from Kumaon University. In the 80s she practiced as lawyer in Kumaon, being only one of few female lawyers in the region.

In 1994, after the infamous Muzzafarnagar Kand, Pant led from the front and united women from all the regions of the area to come together to form even a larger organization demanding separate statehood called Uttarakhand Mahila Manch (UMM). UMM, under her leadership demanded that Gairsain (a small hill township in centre of two major regions of the state namely Kumaon and Garhwal) be designated as the state's capital, which was a long oppressed demand of state's citizens.

Even today after achieving full statehood, UMM fights for female rights, basic human rights of poor residents of the state, liquor prohibition, anti-female trafficking, educational reforms in government run school, empowerment of gram sabhas and issues of jal,jungle and jameen. Currently along with leading UMM, she is actively leading from the front as the convener of Swaraj Abhiyan in Uttarakhand along with many of her female and male comrades. Pant has spoken out for older women in her state, noting that in 2014, chief minister, Harish Rawat, has finally decided to pursue a food security program to help the elderly.  Pant, along with others, protested the gang-rape of a young New Delhi woman in 2012.

Mamta Rakesh  :

Mamta Rakesh is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand and a two term Member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Mamta represents the Bhagwanpur (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency). Mamta is a member of the Indian National Congress.

Kalpana Saini :

Kalpana Saini (born 1 October 1959) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as president of backward Commission of Uttrakhand government and Director of National fertiliser Limited. She previously served as District President of Roorkee (Uttarakhand), before that State Secretary of the state of Uttarakhand, State President of Uttarakhand Pradhanacharya Parishad from 2003 to 2005. She has also served as the General Secretary of Durga Vahini, Roorkee Uttarakhand and President of Sewa bharti Matri Mandal, Roorkee and Councilor of the BJP, 1995–2000. She holds many senior position at BJP, VHP and Yogi Mangalnath Saraswati Shishu mandir. She began her career as a lecturer and served as Principal at Gandhi mahila shilp Vidyalaya from 1987 and used her long-term connections with the Hindutva organization, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to become involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Kamalendumati Shah  :

Kamalendumati Shah (died 1999) was an Indian politician, social worker and a member of Indian Parliament. Hailing from the Tehri Garhwal district of the present day Uttarakhand, she was known to have been active in parliamentary politics.The Government of India awarded her the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1958, for her contributions to society. She died on 15 July 1999 succumbing to brain cancer.

Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah :

Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah (born 23 August 1950) is a political and social worker, Member of Parliament elected from the Tehri Garhwal constituency in the Indian state of Uttarakhand being a Bhartiya Janata Party candidate and current queen of Tehri Garhwal. She was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in a bye-election and is a Member, BJP State Parliamentary Board in Uttarakhand. She defeated Saket Bahuguna son of Vijay Bahuguna then chief minister of Uttrakhand and a candidate of Indian National Congress by a margin of over 22,000. Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah is the daughter-in-law of erstwhile Tehri royal family scion Manabendra Shah, who represented the seat in Lok Sabha for a record eight times. She is the first woman elected to Lok Sabha from the state since its creation as a separate state on 9 November 2000.

Manorama Dobriyal Sharma :

Manorama Dobriyal Sharma was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress party. She represented the Uttarakhand constituency from 26 November 2014 – 18 February 2015, when she died, aged 59.