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T. N. Sadalakshmi

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{{Infobox MLA
| name = T. N. Sadalakshmi
| | birth_date = 25 December 1928
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad, Telangana|Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2004|7|24|1928|12|28}}
| death_place = [[Hyderabad, Telangana|Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]
| party ={{bulleted list |[[Indian National Congress]]
| Telangana Congress
|[[Telugu Desam Party]]
}}
| spouse = T. Venkata Narayana
| residence = Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
|office =Deputy Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
|term_start = 15 March 1960
|term_end = 01 March 1962
|office2 = Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
|term_start2 = 1957
|term_end2 = 1962
|office3 = Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
|term_start3 = 1962
|term_end3 = 1967
|constituency3 =[[Yellareddy (Assembly constituency)|Yellareddy]]
|constituency2 = [[Kamareddy (Assembly constituency)|Kamareddy]]
|predecessor2 = Position established
|successor2 = Vittalreddigari Venkatarama Reddy
|successor3 = [[Eshwari Bai]]
}}

'''Takella. N. Sadalakshmi''' (1928–2004) was the first [[Dalit]] woman legislator of Telangana.

==Early life==
Sadalakshmi was born at Pensionpura in Hyderabad. She studied at [[Keyes High School]] and had begun a course in medicine in [[Chennai|Madras]] when she heard [[B. R. Ambedkar]] deliver a speech at [[Jeera Compound]]. She decided then to abandon medicine in favour of politics.<ref name="obit"/>

==Political career==
Sadalakshmi was first elected from the Peddapalli constituency and subsequently from that of Kamareddy. She rose to become deputy speaker of the [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]].<ref name="obit"/>

In 1962, Sadalakshmi was elected to the state assembly from Yellareddy assembly constituency.{{cn|date=July 2017}} She became the first and only woman minister in the cabinet of [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]].{{cn|date=July 2017}} As a Minister of Religious and Charitable Endowments – a position she held for a year – she took the decision to train [[Dalit]]s as Hindu priests. She set up an Archaka School at Yadagirigutta and allowed women into Devasthanam trusts. Later, as Social Welfare Minister, she set up SC Corporation.<ref name="obit"/>

Sadalakshmi was a member of [[Vidhan Parishad]] between 1974 and 1980. She also served as honorary chairman of LIDCAP in the 1980s.{{cn|date=July 2017}}

Sadalakshmi supported [[Ambedkarism]] and the movement for a separate Telangana state. She joined the [[Telugu Desam Party]] in 1982 at [[N. T. Rama Rao]]'s insistence and was appointed to be the party's vice-president.<ref name="obit"/> She later left Telugu Desam Party to work for the [[Telangana Congress Party]].{{cn|date=July 2017}}

==Personal life==
Sadalakshmi was married to T. Venkata Narayana, a prominent Scheduled Caste leader. They had a son and two daughters. She died on 24 July 2004 at CARE Hospital due to a cardiac problem. She was cremated at [[Bansilalpet]].<ref name="obit">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/2004/07/25/stories/2004072506550300.htm | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Sadalakshmi passes away | date=2004-07-25 | accessdate=20 July 2016}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==References==
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Eshwari Bai

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Eshwari Bai
| image =
| caption = Eshwari Bai
|birth_date = {{birth date|1918|12|01|df=y}}
| birth_place =[[Chilkalguda]]
|death_place = [[Hyderabad]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1991|02|25|1918|12|01|df=y}}
| occupation =Politician
| nationality = Indian
| party = [[Republican Party of India]]
| children = [[Geeta Reddy]], daughter
|office =Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
|term_start = 1967
|term_end = 1978
|predecessor = [[T. N. Sadalakshmi]]
|successor = [[Tadur Bala Goud]]
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'''Jetti Eshwari Bai'''{{efn|''Eshwari'' is sometimes spelled ''Eashwari'' and as ''Eswari''. The name is sometimes conjoined as ''Eshwaribai''.}} (1 December 1918 – 25 February 1991) was an Indian politician, a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] and president of the [[Republican Party of India]]. She worked for the upliftment of the backward classes who were subjected to slavery and [[Caste system in India|caste discrimination]] for generations by the upper castes.

==Life==
Eshwari Bai was born on 1 December 1918.<ref name="V9">{{Citation|last=V6 News Telugu|title=Special Discussion On Biography of Eshwari Bai {{!}} 7PM Discussion – V6News|date=2015-12-02|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhCcgFhvQnc|accessdate=2017-07-18}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} She started her career as a teacher in Paropakarini School in [[Secunderabad]] and later started a school named Geetha Vidyalaya in Chilkalguda, Secunderabad. She held workshops for the poor women of the locality, who learned crafting, tailoring, painting etc., helping economically poor women to secure to support themselves and their families.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Bai was elected as a [[councillor]] of the Secunderabad Municipal Corporation in 1950.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Dalits-justify-statue-for-Eswari-Bai/articleshow/3041351.cms|title=Dalits justify statue for Eswari Bai|date=15 May 2008|work=The Times of India|access-date=2017-06-06}}</ref>

She founded the Civic Rights Committee (CRC) in the 1960s to contest the Hyderabad municipal elections as an apolitical party. It won four seats in those elections.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Inspired by [[B. R. Ambedkar]], Bai joined the [[Scheduled Castes Federation]] (SCF) and in 1958, when SCF was renamed as the Republican Party of India (RPI), she was elected as General Secretary. She went on to become the President of RPI later. In 1962 general elections she lost on RPI ticket from [[Yellareddy (Assembly constituency)|Yellareddy Assembly constituency]], but won in the 1967 polls.<ref name="V9" /> She was the Vice Chairperson of the [[Telangana Praja Samithi]] (TPS) and won a ticket in 1972 elections again from Yellareddy on an RPI – TPS ticket.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

As a chairperson of the Women and Child Welfare, Bai was instrumental in bringing legislation for free education of girl students up to higher education. She was the secretary of Indian Conference of Social Welfare and member of the [[Indian Red Cross Society]].{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} She also fought for separate statehood for [[Telangana movement|Telangana]] in 1969 and was imprisoned at the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ntnews.com/Nipuna-Education/%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8B-%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1-%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81-15-2-480792.aspx|title=ఉద్యమంలో సబ్బండ వర్ణాలు|date=2017-06-01|work=Namaste Telanganaa|access-date=2017-07-18}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Bai had four brothers and a sister. She was married to Jetti Laxminarayana, a dentist from [[Pune]], at the age of 13.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} Her daughter, [[J. Geeta Reddy]], is a politician with the [[Indian National Congress]] party.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Its-all-in-the-family/article14755567.ece|title=It's all in the family|last=A. Saye|first=Sekhar|date=27 April 2007|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-07-18}}</ref>

Bai died on 25 February 1991.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Eashwari-Bai-remembered/article15992112.ece|title=Eshwari Bai remembered|date=25 February 2010|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-06-06}}</ref>

The Eshwari Bai Memorial Award was instituted in her honour.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/Sukhdeo-Thorat-receives-Eashwari-Bai-Memorial-Award/article16738114.ece|title=Sukhdeo Thorat receives Eashwari Bai Memorial Award|date=1 December 2016|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-07-18}}</ref>

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Pashupati Kumar Paras

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Pashupati Kumar Paras
| image = File:Pashupati Kumar Paswan.jpg
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| birth_place = Shaharbani
| office = [[Ministry of Food Processing Industries|Minister of Food Processing Industries]]
| president = [[Ram Nath Kovind]]
| primeminister = [[Narendra Modi]]
| term_start = 7 July 2021
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Narendra Singh Tomar]]
| office1 = Member of Parliament, [[Lok Sabha]]
| term_start1 = 23 May 2019
| predecessor1 = [[Ram Vilas Paswan]]
| constituency1 = [[Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Hajipur]]
| party = [[Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party]]
| office2 = President of the [[Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party]]
| predecessor2 = ''Post established''
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'''Pashupati Kumar Paras''' (born 1953) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the [[Ministry of Food Processing Industries|Minister of Food Processing Industries]] in the Government of India. He is currently serving as a member of [[Lok Sabha]] from [[Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. He also held the post of the Minister of Animal and Fisheries Resources in the [[Government of Bihar]].<ref>{{Cite web|title='No formalin threat to fish lovers in Bihar' {{!}} Patna News-Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/no-formalin-threat-to-fish-lovers-in-state/articleshow/65059809.cms|last1=Jul 20|first1=TNN {{!}} Updated|last2=2018|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2020-05-11|last3=Ist|first3=07:18}}</ref> He is the younger brother of late [[Ram Vilas Paswan]] and he was also the State President of the [[Bihar]] unit of [[Lok Janshakti Party]]. He was elected as the National President of [[Lok Janshakti Party]] replacing [[Chirag Paswan|Chirag Kumar Paswan]] in June 2021. After the faction in [[Lok Janshakti Party]], he is National President of [[Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Team|first=DNA Video|title=EC allots ‘Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party’ to Pashupati Paras {{!}} Latest News & Updates at DNAIndia.com|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-ec-allots-rashtriya-lok-janshakti-party-to-pashupati-paras-2914245|access-date=2021-10-11|website=DNA India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Lok Janshakti Party EC allots name Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas and election symbol Helicopter to Chirag Paswan Pashupati Kumar Paras Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party एलजेपी के हुए दो फाड़, EC ने बना दिए 2 दल, चिराग पासवान के दल का नाम हुआ लोक जनशक्ति पार्टी (रामविलास {{!}} Times Now Navbharat Hindi News|url=https://www.timesnowhindi.com/amp/india/article/ec-allots-name-lok-janshakti-party-ram-vilas-and-election-symbol-helicopter-to-chirag-paswan-pashupati-kumar-paras-rashtriya-lok-janshakti-party/366471|access-date=2021-10-11|website=www.timesnowhindi.com}}</ref>

==Political career==
He has been a member of [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]] seven times from '''[[Alauli (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Alauli]]''' since 1977. He has earlier served thrice as a minister in the state, having lost the last election in 2015. At the time of his appointment as a Minister in 2017, he was neither a member of Assembly nor Council and was therefore later accommodated as an [[Bihar Legislative Council|MLC]] from the Governor's quota.<ref>[https://m.timesofindia.com/city/patna/wont-agree-on-less-than-7-ls-seats-ljp/articleshow/66336340.cms Won’t agree on less than 7 Lok Sabha seats: Paras]</ref><ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/india/most-jdu-faces-retained-in-28-member-nitish-cabinet-bjp-gets-11-ljp-one-4773411/ Most JDU faces retained in 28-member Nitish Cabinet: BJP gets 11, LJP one]</ref>

He became [[Ministry of Food Processing Industries|Minister of Food Processing Industry]] in [[Second Modi ministry]] when cabinet overhaul happened.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/modi-cabinet-rejig-full-list-of-new-ministers-1825111-2021-07-07|title=Modi cabinet rejig: Full list of new ministers|website=India Today|access-date=2021-07-07}}</ref>

== References ==
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B. Y. Vijayendra

2021-10-30T06:55:09Z

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'''Bookanakere Yediyurappa Vijayendra''' is an [[Indian people|Indian]] politician who is currently the vice president of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] of Karnataka. He is the son of former [[Chief Minister of Karnataka]], [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]. He previously served as the General secretary of the [[Karnataka]] unit of the [[Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha]]. He is a Lawyer by education and previously had a brief stint as an advocate.<ref>{{cite web|title = B.Y. Vijayendra — Yediyurappa’s trusted son and nemesis|url = https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/by-vijayendra-yediyurappas-trusted-son-and-nemesis/article35519531.ece|work = The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = Yediyurappa’s Achilles heel: His son BY Vijayendra|url = https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/yediyurappa-s-achilles-heel-his-son-vijayendra-152927|work = The News Minute}}</ref> His brother [[B. Y. Raghavendra]] is a member of Parliament from [[Shimoga (Lok Sabha constituency)|Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency]].
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|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]] (father)
|Mythra Devi (mother)
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|party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|nationality = [[India]]n
|office =State Vice President of Bharatiya Janata party of Karnataka
|term_start = August 2020
|president = [[Nalin Kumar Kateel]]
}}

==See also==
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* [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]

==References==
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