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Madhu Azad

Madhu Azad is an Indian politician from Haryana representing the Bharatiya Janata Party. In the 2017 Gurgaon Municipal Corporation election, she was elected as the mayor of Gurgaon. She is first woman mayor of Gurugram. Her term as mayor ended in 2022. The election was delayed as the delimitation exercise was not yet completed.

She is from Gurugram, Haryana. She married Ashok Azad, a BJP party worker for over two decades.

She made her electoral debut representing the BJP and won from Ward Number 7 in 2017 election and became a unanimous candidate after BJP president Subhash Barala held meetings with other party councillors and an all-woman team was formed.

In November 2017, BJP won 14 seats in the 35 wards and with the mayor seat reserved for women belonging to Scheduled Caste in 2017, Azad won the post unopposed. In the elections held to the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon in September 2017, 20 independent candidates won and BJP managed to secure the support of 12 councillors and won the Mayor post. Provided by Wikipedia