Kusum Rai
Kusum Rai (born 14 August 1968) is an Indian politician. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.

She is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is a senior woman leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a former chairperson of the UP Women Commission and also the national vice-president of the party's Mahila Morcha. She is the protégé of Kalyan Singh whom she considers like her father and calls him Babuji but has parted ways with him. Earlier she was also the Cabinet Minister of Public Works Department in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

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People from Azamgarh
Women in Uttar Pradesh politics
Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
1968 births
Politicians from Varanasi
Politicians from Lucknow
21st-century Indian women politicians
21st-century Indian politicians
Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
Samajwadi Party politicians
Women members of the Rajya Sabha
State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh