Maya Ray | |
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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 1972–1977 | |
Preceded by | Siddhartha Shankar Ray |
Succeeded by | Md. Hayat Ali |
Constituency | Raiganj,(West Bengal) |
Personal details | |
Born | Dibrugarh,Assam,British India [1] | 9 February 1927
Died | 11 March 2013 86) Kolkata,West Bengal,India | (aged
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Spouse | Siddhartha Shankar Ray |
Residence | Kolkata |
Maya Ray was a lawyer and an Indian politician from West Bengal. She was elected in a Bye election to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India from Raiganj,West Bengal,in 1972.
The Bye 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.
She died of kidney failure on 11 March 2013,two and a quarter years after her husband died. [7]
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