Indira Anant Maydeo

Indira Anant Maydeo was an Indian parliamentarian who represented Pune South in the 1st Lok Sabha as a member of the Indian National Congress.

Indira Anant Maydeo
Member of the 1st Lok Sabha for Pune South
In office
1951–1957
Preceded byNew constituency
Succeeded byNarayan Ganesh Gore
Personal details
Born(1903-09-07)7 September 1903
Political partyIndian National Congress

Early life

Born on 7 September 1903, Maydeo attended the Fergusson College, from where she received her B.Sc. degree.[1]

Career

Maydeo was actively involved in the Indian independence movement and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). In 1933, she joined the Maharashtra division of Harijan Sevak Sangh.[1] She was the most prominent women member of the party in Pune (then in Bombay State) and when the first general elections of independent India were held, the INC made her its official candidate for Pune South constituency. Maydeo obtained roughly 64% of the votes cast and defeated the Socialist Party candidate Shridhar Limaye to become the first women representative of Pune in the house.[2][3] She still holds this record.[2] As a Member of Parliament, she brought a bill in the Lok Sabha concerning divorce but it was not discussed and eventually lapsed.[4] Maydeo became the president of National Students' Union of India in 1952.[1]

Personal life

Indira married Anant Govind Maydeo in 1927, from whom she had one son and three daughters.[1]

References
  1. "Members Bioprofile: Maydeo, Shrimati Indira Anant". Lok Sabha. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. "1951: When Pune elected a woman — Indirabai Maydeo — to first Lok Sabha". The Indian Express. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  3. D.G., Supriya (16 January 2014). "Vinita Deshmukh: From Journalism to Politics". NRI Pulse. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  4. Chopra, Joginder Kumar (1993). Women in the Indian Parliament: A Critical Study of Their Role. Mittal Publications. p. 56. ISBN 978-81-7099-513-5.
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