Education
University of Delhi.
politician member of the Lok Sabha
University of Delhi.
On 19 January 2015 she joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
In 1998, she became the Minister for Social Welfare, South Carolina & System Technologies and Labour & Employment in the Sheila Dikshit led Delhi government. The Chief Minister saw her as a part of the dissident group and forced to resign from her post by dissolving her entire Cabinet. On her resignation in 2003, she became Deputy Speaker of the Delhi Assembly.
In the 2004 elections she beat Anita Arya of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected to parliament.
In 2009 elections, She again elected from North West Delhi by defeating Meera Kanwaria of BJP. The goal is to calculate the value of housework, and to socially empower women for the work they do at home. In a 2012 meeting with United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Tirath stated her concern for malnutrition among children in India.
She emphasized the importance of agencies like Integrated Child Development Services for implementing improvements in education, immunization and supplementary nutrition, to alleviate child mortality. Initially Mrs.Tirath refused to accept the error on behalf of her ministry, accused the media of hair-splitting, and stated, " message is more important than the image.
The photograph is only symbolic.
The message for the girl child is more important. She should be protected." She later apologised on behalf of her ministry for publishing a photograph of a former Pakistan Air Force chief in a government advertisement and said an inquiry will bring out who was responsible for lieutenant The former air marshal, upon learning of the publication, ".wasn"t aware about this an innocent mistake."
On 13 September 2010, Central Administrative Tribunal (Centre for Alternative Technology) cancelled the appointment of Krishna Tirath"s daughter Yashvi Tirath for the post of anchor-cum-correspondent in state run telecaster Doordarshan News.
A tribunal, headed by chairman V K Bali, cancelled the selection of the journalists working with Doctor of Divinity News, finding "misuse of marks in the interview" and "irregularities having vitiated the whole process."
On 19 January 2015, she formally joined the BJP after meeting Mr Amit Shah - the BJP President.
She contested from Patel Nagar (Delhi Assembly constituency) as a BJP candidate for the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015 and was defeated by Hazari Lal Chauhan of Alumni Admissions Program by a margin of 34,638 votes.
She represented the North West Delhi constituency of Delhi and was a member of the Indian National Congress (Incorporated) political party.
She began her political career as a M.L.A in Delhi and was a member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly between 1984–2004.