Sumatitai Suklikar

Sumati Suklikar (24 December 1923 - 22 February 2011), known variously using Tai or Bai honorifics as Sumatitai or Sumatibai or Tai Suklikar, 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]

Alankar Talkies Chowk, Ambazari Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra was renamed after her as "Lokmata Sumatitai Suklikar Chowk" and a copper mural was installed there as a tribute to her social and political work. It was inaugrated by the then" Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari" on 18 June 2023.

References
  1. Former Pondicherry governor Rajani Rai passes away
  2. "Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1967". www.elections.in. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  3. Sumatitai Sukalikar passes away at 88
  4. http://www.weeklysadhana.com/admin/upload/anka/pdf/23%20Jan%202016%20PDF.pdf Archived 7 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Asmita scheme for rural areas


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