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Tenure at Centre
 She was elected to the Rajya Sabha In 1985 and held position as its deputy chairperson from November 1986 to November 1988. Her term expired in April 1990. The following year, in the elections when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated she won election 10th Lok Sabha from at Amravati constituency, where he had once been mayor, thus first time entering in lower house of national parliament Lok Sabha.
She has also served as Director of National Federation of Urban Co-operative Banks & Credit Societies and the Member of Governing Council, National Co-operative, Union of India.
Governor of Rajasthan
In November 2004, eight years after she had completed her term in the 10th Lok Sabha, Pratibha Patil was to become the first woman Governor of Rajasthan. She was the second politician from Maharashtra in this post, the first being Vasantdada Patil. With Pratibha Patil as Governor, Rajasthan had women in three significant positions of power in the state, including Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Assembly Speaker Sumitra Singh. |
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