[3] As per her affidavit submitted to Election Commission of India, she has pursued education up to intermediate level and her husband has been an agriculturist.

Verma has been an MLA in 2010 as well as 2015.In 2015, she was the only female member of Nitish Kumar's cabinet where she was given the portfolio of social justice ministry.

Later, she and her husband were also booked under "arms act", when CBI raid took place upon their ancestral house in connection with the "shelter case" which involved sexual abuse against destitute minor girls.

According to her, she visited the shelter home only once with her husband on the occasion of a programme when she saw the girls cooking in their dirty clothes, but they refused to tell anything on enquiry.

[11] Verma was defeated in this election by Raj Banshi Mahto of Rashtriya Janata Dal, a former Member of Parliament.