Renu Devi Biography 2025: Get the latest details about BJP leader and Bihar minister Renu Devi. Know her age, family, education, net worth, property, political career, criminal cases, constituency, and role in the upcoming 2025 Bihar election. (Image Credit: X/Renu Devi)
Bihar Election 2025: As the 2025 Bihar assembly election draws near, several senior political figures in the state, including veteran BJP leader Renu Devi, are in the spotlight because of a strong electoral track record from the Bettiah constituency, ministerial experience, and deep embedding into the region's socio-political fabric.
Renu Devi is expected to play a significant strategic role for her party in the race. Her personal story of coming from grassroots activism to high government office, combined with her status as a popular face of the BJP in Bihar, makes her profile all the more pertinent this election season.
Renu Devi is a senior BJP leader from Bihar, a multiple-term MLA from Bettiah, and the former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. She has held several ministerial portfolios in the Bihar government and has served as the national vice-president of the BJP. In recent years, she has also been the minister for Animal & Fisheries Resources in the Nitish Kumar cabinet.
Born on 1 November 1959, Renu Devi is currently 65 years old in 2025.
Renu Devi is a widow. She was married to Durga Prasad, an insurance inspector based in Kolkata, who died not long after their marriage. She returned to Bettiah as a single parent.
Her officially used name is Renu Devi; no other name - either public or legal, as an alternative - is widely reported.
Renu Devi belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was the national vice-president of the party and is considered a strong leader from Bihar for the BJP.
Her educational qualification is listed as intermediate (12th pass) from M.D.D.M. College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar (1977).
According to her latest declared election affidavit, Renu Devi's total assets stand at approximately ₹3.69 crore, with liabilities at about ₹14.9 lakh, giving a net worth in that range.
She is reachable on Twitter/X as @renu_bjp, where she updates her political engagements and activities.
Renu Devi was born into a Hindu socio-cultural background and belongs to the Noniya community.
Her election affidavits list details of assets, liabilities, educational qualification as well as pending criminal cases against her. The 2020 Bihar assembly election affidavit is available here.
Her declared immovable assets include several agricultural land plots in Bettiah, a residential flat in Patna (Rubaiya Residency) and others. The total value of her immovable assets was declared to be approximately ₹2.88 crore in the declared affidavit.
In her affidavit, she has mentioned the Patna residence as the flat in Rubaiya Residency, while declaring her Bettiah address as her constituency residence.
Renu Devi is an MLA from the Bettiah assembly constituency in West Champaran district, Bihar. She has been elected multiple times from this seat.
Renu Devi is blessed with two children, details about whom are not widely published in the public domain due to privacy reasons.
She is currently a senior leader of the BJP in Bihar and is also a state minister (Animal & Fisheries Resources). She has previously served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and the national vice-president of the BJP.
Her criminal record consists of a couple of pending cases related to disobedience to order promulgated by a public servant (IPC Section 188). No major corruption conviction or a case of a high-profile scandal has been reported against her to date.
According to her declared affidavit in 2020, Renu Devi had two pending criminal cases, both under IPC Section 188, and no convictions at the time.
Renu Devi Total Income Shown in ITR In her 2020 affidavit, her "Total Income shown in ITR" for the relevant year was ₹13,08,040. Year-by-year figures are available in her affidavit summary.
