[5] She also worked as President Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress from 2002-2005 and was selected by Rahul Gandhi as AICC Secretary in 2008.

[5][6] She was selected by Rahul Gandhi for contesting from Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh in 2009 Indian general election which she won by over 30,000 votes defeating her BJP opponent Laxminarayan Pandey who had been winning since 1971.

[8] She was defeated by Sudhir Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Mandsaur constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of over 300,000 votes.

She contested the Mandsaur seat again in 2019 Indian general election but lost to Sudhir Gupta in a repeat of 2014 result.

During one of the election rally, her party's spokesperson Digvijaya Singh referred her as "sau taka tunch maal" (100% pure material or totally unblemished) while introducing her on the stage.