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Sumatitai Suklikar
Sumati Suklikar (24 December 1923 - 22 February 2011), known variously using Tai or Bai honorifics as Sumatitai or Sumatibai or Tai Sukalikar, was an Indian politician. She was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and its precursor Bharatiya Jana Sangh, and was from Nagpur, Maharashtra.[1] She contested elections for Maharashtra Legislative Assembly four times in 1960s and 1970s.[2] She died on 22 February 2011 due to old age. [3]
She had a brother-like relation with the veteran Communist Party of India leader A. B. Bardhan from Nagpur. Although they contested elections against each other. Sumatitai was like an elder sister to Bardhan. [4] In 2018, Maharashtra state government launched a scheme named 'Sumatibai Suklikar Yojana' in Sumati-bai's memory to effect social upliftment of women in rural parts of the state. [5]
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- Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra
- 1923 births
- 2011 deaths
- Politicians from Nagpur
- Women in Maharashtra politics
- Members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
- Marathi politicians
- 20th-century Indian women politicians
- 20th-century Indian politicians
- Bharatiya Jana Sangh politicians
- Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party politician stubs