She was elected for the first time to the 14th Lok Sabha from Mumbai North West constituency in Maharashtra on 22 November 2005, representing the Indian National Congress party.

She has a Post Graduate Diploma in television production from the Center for Media Arts in New York City, United States.

[7][citation needed] It first became obvious that Priya was her father’s successor when she accompanied him on his Mahashanti Padyatra in 1987 from Mumbai to Amritsar.

[8] In 2005, following the death of her father, Sunil Dutt, and despite a low voter turnout, she won her seat in the Lok Sabha by a margin of 172,043 votes over the Shiv Sena candidate.

After university, Dutt worked in television and video and studied at The Center for the Media Arts in New York.