[2][3] Anju Bala was born on 6 September 1979 at Kathua, Jammu Kashmir to Ravinder Nath and Trishala Devi,[4] both of whom belong to the Chamar caste.
[7] In the 2014 Indian general election, she contested Misrikh constituency and defeated her nearest rival Ashok Kumar Rawat of the Bahujan Samaj Party by a margin of 87,363 votes.
[7] On 26 February 2018, Bala adopted Tejipur village under a rural development program called Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
[11][12] During Bala's tenure as an MP, she used 90.21% of ₹17.5 crore (US$2.0 million) that was released under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme fund.
[15][16] Bala believes violence against cows could be curbed by making them the national animal of India and in August 2017, she demanded this course of action in Lok Sabha.