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Agatha Kongkal Sangma (born 24 July 1980) is an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing the Tura constituency of Meghalaya. At the age of 29, she is the youngest member of parliament ever in India to be appointed Union Minister in Government of India till date. Sangma is the second woman from Northeast India to be appointed a union minister in the Government of India after Renuka Devi Barkataki from Assam. She is a member of National People's Party.
Sangma was Minister of State for Rural development. She resigned from this post during the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012.
It was reported in November 2017 that she would contest the 2018 Meghalaya legislative assembly election on a National People'
Personal life
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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