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Real name Kumari Manju Verma
Kumari Manju Verma is an Indian politician who represented the Cheria-Bariarpur constituency in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. She served as the sole female minister in the Bihar Cabinet, holding the Social Welfare portfolio, before resigning in 2018 amid controversies related to a shelter home case and an Arms Act investigation. She later faced legal sentencing in the Arms Act case and was defeated in the 2020 assembly elections.
She resigned in August 2018 following public outrage over the Muzaffarpur shelter home abuse scandal, which fell under her department's jurisdiction and implicated her husband. She was later suspended from the JD(U) and arrested under the Arms Act after a CBI raid at her residence recovered prohibited live ammunition.