Maya Ray
{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|2|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Dibrugarh, Assam, British India{{cite book|title=The States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JN8iAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=19 January 2019|year=1971|publisher=India News and Feature Alliance.|page=21}}
| residence = Kolkata
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|3|11|1927|2|9|df=y}}
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| office = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
| constituency = Raiganj, (West Bengal)
| term_start = 1972
| term_end= 1977
| predecessor =Siddhartha Shankar Ray
| successor =Md. Hayat Ali
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| party =Indian National Congress
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| spouse = Siddhartha Shankar Ray
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Maya Ray (9 February 1927 – 11 March 2013) was a lawyer and an Indian politician from West Bengal. She was elected in a by-election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Raiganj, West Bengal, in 1972.
Career
The by-election was necessitated after her husband Siddhartha Shankar Ray resigned the seat after he became the Chief Minister of West Bengal in 1972.{{cite book|author1=India. Parliament. House of the People|author2=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulvVAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=13 June 2016|year=1976|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|page=38}}{{cite book|author=Jasodhara Bagchi|title=The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000: The Challenge Ahead|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIuHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181|accessdate=13 June 2016|date=7 January 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-0178-9|pages=181–}}{{cite book|title=Indian Recorder and Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnfiAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=13 June 2016|year=1972|page=31}}{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQMuAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=14 June 2016|volume=18|year=1972|page=viii}}{{cite web | url=http://www.elections.in/west-bengal/parliamentary-constituencies/raiganj.html | title=Raiganj Lok Sabha Elections | publisher=Elections.in | accessdate=14 June 2016}}
As a lawyer she was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late Thomas J. Manton, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Death
She died of kidney failure on 11 March 2013, two and a quarter years after her husband died.{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130312/jsp/nation/story_16662098.jsp#.UUHgTVd0dCw |title=Nation Briefs |work=The Telegraph |date=12 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815131546/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1130312/jsp/nation/story_16662098.jsp#.UUHgTVd0dCw |archive-date=15 August 2018 |accessdate=3 September 2020 |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Lok Sabha members from West Bengal
Category:Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal
Category:Women members of the Lok Sabha
Category:Women in West Bengal politics
Category:20th-century Indian women politicians
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