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Maya Ray

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Maya Ray
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1972–1977
Preceded bySiddhartha Shankar Ray
Succeeded byMd. Hayat Ali
ConstituencyRaiganj, (West Bengal)
Personal details
Born(1927-02-09)9 February 1927
Dibrugarh, Assam, British India[1]
Died11 March 2013(2013-03-11) (aged 86)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseSiddhartha Shankar Ray
ResidenceKolkata

Maya Ray (9 February 1927 – 11 March 2013) was a lawyer and an Indian politician from West Bengal. She was elected in a by-election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Raiganj, West Bengal, in 1972.

Career

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The by-election was necessitated after her husband Siddhartha Shankar Ray resigned the seat after he became the Chief Minister of West Bengal in 1972.[2][3][4][5][6]

As a lawyer she was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late Thomas J. Manton, a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Death

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She died of kidney failure on 11 March 2013, two and a quarter years after her husband died.[7]

References

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  1. ^ The States. India News and Feature Alliance. 1971. p. 21. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. ^ India. Parliament. House of the People; India. Parliament. Lok Sabha (1976). Lok Sabha Debates. Lok Sabha Secretariat. p. 38. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  3. ^ Jasodhara Bagchi (7 January 2005). The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000: The Challenge Ahead. SAGE Publications. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-81-321-0178-9. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  4. ^ Indian Recorder and Digest. 1972. p. 31. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ^ Asian Recorder. Vol. 18. 1972. p. viii. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  6. ^ "Raiganj Lok Sabha Elections". Elections.in. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Nation Briefs". The Telegraph. 12 March 2013. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2020.