Chandraprabha Urs

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Chandraprabha Urs

| image =

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| constituency_AM = Hunsur

| assembly = Karnataka Legislative

| term_start = 1983

| term_end = 1991

| predecessor =

| successor =

| office2 = Member of the 10th Lok Sabha from Mysore

| term_start2 = 1991

| term_end2 = 1996

| majority2 = 16,882

| predecessor2 = Srikanta Datta Narsimharaja Wadiyar

| successor2 = Srikanta Datta Narsimharaja Wadiyar

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1946|5|25}}

| birth_place = Hunsur, Karnataka, India

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2016|5|3|1946|5|25}}

| death_place = Mysore, Karnataka, India

| death_cause = Cardiac arrest

| party = Indian National Congress

| otherparty = Janata Party

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Chandraprabha Urs (25 May 1946 – 3 May 2016) was a politician from Karnataka. She was a member of the 10th Lok Sabha and Karnataka Legislative Assembly. She was with Janata Party and Congress at various times.{{Cite web |title=Resignations of two senior ministers raise possibility of Hegde govt premature demise |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19840815-resignations-of-two-senior-ministers-raise-possibility-of-hegde-govt-premature-demise-803212-1984-08-14 |access-date= |website=India Today |language=en}}

Early life

Chandraprabha was born on 25 May 1946 in Hunsur, Mysore district. Her father D. Devaraj Urs was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and went on to become the Chief Minister of Karnataka.{{cite news|title=Chandraprabha Urs passes away|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/chandraprabha-urs-passes-away/article8552163.ece|accessdate=25 November 2017|work=The Hindu|date=3 May 2016}} She graduated from the Smt. VHD Central Institute of Home Science with a degree in library science.{{cite web|title=Members Bioprofile: Urs, Smt. Chandraprabha|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3628.htm|publisher=Lok Sabha|accessdate=25 November 2017}}

Career

As a member of the Janata Party, Urs won the 1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from Hunsur and was appointed the Minister for Social Welfare, Sericulture and excise in Ramakrishna Hegde's cabinet.{{cite news|title=Chandraprabha Urs cremated with State honours|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/chandraprabha-urs-cremated-with-state-honours/article8559131.ece|accessdate=25 November 2017|work=The Hindu|date=5 May 2016}} Later she joined the INC and served her second term in the state assembly from 1989 to 1991.{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1989 to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1989/Statistical%20Report%20karnataka%201989.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=25 November 2017|page=142}} In the 1991 Indian general election, INC made her its official candidate from Mysore against Bharatiya Janata Party's Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, the titular Maharaja of Mysore. She polled 2,25, 881 votes against his 2,08,999; defeating him by a margin of 16,882 votes.{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 to the Tenth Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=25 November 2017|page=196}}

Personal life

She married M.C. Mohan Raj Urs. Urs died on 3 May 2016 at a Mysore hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.

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