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<p>Add: title. Changed bare reference to CS1/2. | <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">Use this bot</a>. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs</a>. | Suggested by BrownHairedGirl | Linked from User:BrownHairedGirl/Articles_with_bare_links | #UCB_webform_linked 571/1824</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian politician}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}<br /> {{Infobox officeholder<br /> | name = Uma ramesh sharma<br /> | image =<br /> | caption = Uma Ramesh Sharma profile photo.<br /> | birth_date = 17 November 1953<br /> | birth_place = [[Palghat]], [[Kerala]]<br /> | residence = 1, Kirlampudi Lay Out, Beach Road, [[Visakhapatnam]], [[Andhra Pradesh]].<br /> | death_date =<br /> | death_place =<br /> | constituency = [[Visakhapatnam (Lok Sabha constituency)|Visakhapatnam]]<br /> | office = Member of Parliament<br /> | term =<br /> | predecessor = [[Bhattam Srirama Murthy]]<br /> | successor = [[M. V. V. S. Murthy]]<br /> | party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> | spouse = Pusapati Ananda Gajapathi Raju(divorced) now married to Ramesh Sharma<br /> | children = 2 daughters<br /> | website =<br /> | footnotes =<br /> | date =<br /> | year =<br /> | source =<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Uma Ramesh sharma&#039;&#039;&#039; [[B.A.]] was a member of [[Indian Parliament]].<br /> <br /> She was born at [[Palghat]], [[Kerala]] on 17 November 1953. She was educated at [[Madras University]]. She married Pusapati Ananda Gajapathi Raju on 18 August 1971. They had 2 daughters. They divorced in 1989 and she married film maker Ramesh Sharma in 1991. Anand Ganapathi Raju died in 2016.<br /> <br /> She is a Political and Social Worker. She was Joint Secretary of [[Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee]] for one year. Anand Gajapathi Raju, Uma&#039;s then husband, was a minister in N T Rama Rao&#039;s ministry in AP. But in 1989, he resigned from TDP to join Congress before Uma successfully contested Lok Sabha election the same year.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/eyecatchers/story/19890615-uma-gajapathi-rajus-husband-resigns-from-tdp-to-join-congressi-816174-1989-06-15|title = Uma Gajapathi Raju&#039;s husband resigns from TDP, to join Congress(I)}}&lt;/ref&gt; She was elected to the [[9th Lok Sabha]], in 1989, from [[Visakhapatnam (Lok Sabha constituency)]] as a member of [[Indian National Congress]]. She was Member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in 1990. In 1991 Lok Sabha polls, she came second in Visakhapattanam to the TDP candidate.<br /> <br /> She was Vice-President of All India Women&#039;s Hockey Federation; Vice-Chairperson, Organising Committee, Freedom Run and Marathon; Member, Nehru Cricket Club; Vice-President, National Institute of Social Action and National Red Cross Society;<br /> <br /> She is interested in flood and drought relief work, promotion of orphanage activities, environment protection and malaria eradication programmes.<br /> <br /> She was Director, Trade Fair Authority of India.; Member, Film Festival Selection Committee for International Film Festival, 1989; Member, Cultural Sub-Committee, Nehru Implementation Committee.<br /> She joined the board of Moving Picture Co India Ltd in 1989 and resigned from the board in 2010. She has been anchor for 8 years of the prime time News Program on Doordarshan called India This Week. She has been Exec Producer of many award-winning documentaries including the Emmy nominated film The Journalist and the Jihadi- The Murder of Daniel Pearl, directed by her husband Ramesh Sharma.<br /> <br /> Her daughter, Sanchaita Raju, was appointed spokesperson of Delhi unit of BJP in 2018.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web|url=https://www.ap7am.com/lv-298883-anand-gajapathi-raju-daughter-sanchaita-gajapati-joins-bjp.html|title = Anand Gajapathi Raju Daughter Sanchaita Gajapati Joins BJP}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/3376.htm Biodata of Uma Gajapathi Raju at Lok Sabha website.]<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Raju, Uma Gajapathi}}<br /> [[Category:9th Lok Sabha members]]<br /> [[Category:1951 births]]<br /> [[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh]]<br /> [[Category:People from Visakhapatnam district]]<br /> [[Category:Living people]]<br /> [[Category:Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh]]<br /> [[Category:People from Palakkad district]]<br /> [[Category:Women in Andhra Pradesh politics]]<br /> [[Category:Telugu politicians]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Indian women politicians]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Indian politicians]]<br /> {{AndhraPradesh-INC-politician-stub}}</div>

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