{{Short description|Indian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Chhabila Netam | image = | alt = | office = Member of the 11th Lok Sabha for Kanker | term_start = 1996 | term_end = 1998 | majority = 24,420 | predecessor = Arvind Netam | successor = Sohan Potai | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1948|5|22}} | birth_place = Bhaismundi, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, India | party = Indian National Congress }} '''Chhabila Arvind Netam''' (born 22 May 1948) is an Indian National Congress politician and member of the 11th Lok Sabha from the Kanker reserved constituency.<ref>{{cite book|title=Economic and Political Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-uwAAAAIAAJ|volume=31|year=1996|publisher=Sameeksha Trust|page=1690}}</ref>
==Early life== Chhabila was born on 22 May 1948 in Bhaismundi village of Bastar district and did her matriculation from a local government school.<ref name="LS">{{cite web|title=Biographical Sketch: Netam, Smt. Chhabila Arvind|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3736.htm|publisher=Lok Sabha|accessdate=20 November 2017}}</ref>
==Career== During the 1996 Indian general election, the Indian National Congress (INC) party denied a ticket to Arvind Netam because his name surfaced in the Hawala scandal and instead made his wife Chhabila its official candidate.<ref name="Kumari1998">{{cite book|last=Kumari|first=Abhilasha|title=Crossing the Sacred Line: Women's Search for Political Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hbcu_r-qI5cC&pg=PA53|year=1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1435-5|page=53}}</ref><ref name="Rediff">{{cite web|title=Congress makes a desperate comeback attempt in Kanker|url=http://m.rediff.com/election/1999/sep/20kanker.htm|publisher=Rediff.com|accessdate=20 November 2017|date=20 September 1999}}</ref> She polled 219,191 votes and defeated Sohan Potai of Bharatiya Janata Party (194,771 votes) to become the Member of Parliament from Kanker seat reserved for scheduled tribes.<ref name="LS" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1996 to the Eleventh Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_II_LS96.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=21 November 2017|page=235}}</ref> However the house was dissolved well within one and a half years and Netam did not contest the election held in 1998.<ref name="Rediff" /><ref>{{cite web|title=12th Lok Sabha had the shortest life-span|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/apr/26ls.htm|publisher=Rediff.com|accessdate=21 November 2017|date=26 April 1999}}</ref> She stood in the 1999 Indian general election but lost to Potai by a difference of 88,191 votes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1999 to the Thirteenth Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=20 November 2017|page=155}}</ref>
==Personal life== Chhabila married Netam in May 1969 and together they have four children; two sons and two daughters.<ref name="LS" /> One of their daughters, Preeti Netam contested the 2008 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two tribal women to fight it out for Kanker constituency|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/Two-tribal-women-to-fight-it-out-for-Kanker-constituency/article15337661.ece|accessdate=20 November 2017|work=The Hindu|agency=Press Trust of India|date=8 November 2008}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Netam, Chhabila}} Category:Living people Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Madhya Pradesh Category:India MPs 1996–1997 Category:Women members of the Lok Sabha Category:Lok Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh Category:1948 births Category:People from Bastar district Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Chhattisgarh