Maya Ray
politician · lawyer
- October 23, 1926
- March 11, 2013
- 86 years
- kidney failure
About Maya Ray
Maya Ray, 86, Indian politician, kidney failure.
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|Maya Ray (9 February 1927 – 11 March 2013) was an Indian politician and lawyer 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
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.
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
She died of kidney failure on 11 March 2013, two and a quarter years after her husband died.
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