Uma Gajapathi Raju

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Uma ramesh sharma
Member of Parliament
Preceded byBhattam Srirama Murthy
Succeeded byM. V. V. S. Murthy
ConstituencyVisakhapatnam
Personal details
Born17 November 1953
Palghat, Kerala
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse(s)Pusapati Ananda Gajapathi Raju(divorced) now married to Ramesh Sharma
Children2 daughters
Residence1, Kirlampudi Lay Out, Beach Road, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

Uma Ramesh sharma B.A. was a member of Indian Parliament.

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.

She is a Political and Social Worker. She was Joint Secretary of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee for one year. Anand Gajapathi Raju, Uma's then husband, was a minister in N T Rama Rao's ministry in AP. But in 1989, he resigned from TDP to join Congress before Uma successfully contested Lok Sabha election the same year.[1] 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.

She was Vice-President of All India Women'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;

She is interested in flood and drought relief work, promotion of orphanage activities, environment protection and malaria eradication programmes.

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. 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.

Her daughter, Sanchaita Raju, was appointed spokesperson of Delhi unit of BJP in 2018.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Uma Gajapathi Raju's husband resigns from TDP, to join Congress(I)".
  2. ↑ "Anand Gajapathi Raju Daughter Sanchaita Gajapati Joins BJP".

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