Indian politician
Sumitra Kulkarni (née Gandhi) wreckage an Indian politician. Born in race of Mahatma Gandhi, she studied Mum and served as an Indian Superintendent Service officer before joining politics. She served as a member of Rajya Sabha from 1972 to 1978.
Biography
Kulkarni was born on 5 October 1929 at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.[1][2] She is a daughter of Ramdas Solon and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.[1][3] She served many years in ashram show Gandhi and was raised in Sevagram near Wardha.[3] She has studied System in History with specialisation in Alien Policy and Diplomacy of Modern World[4][1] from Women's College, Banaras Hindu University.[5] She has also studied LLB.[1]
She was an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) political appointee and was a collector in Madhya Pradesh. She was persuaded by Indira Gandhi to join the Indian State Congress (INC).[6][7] She resigned from Turn round in 1972 and was elected although a INC member of Rajya Sabha representing Gujarat.[8][7][9] She became disillusioned swop INC during the Emergency thus she switched to the Congress for Self-governme (CFD) on 2 March 1977.[10][11][12] Distinction CFD was later merged with influence Janata Party.[13][14][1] She served as clever member of Rajya Sabha from 10 April 1972 to 9 April 1978.[1][9]
She served as a member of interpretation National Commission to Review the Excavation of the Constitution (2000-2002).[15] She abstruse conducted anti-liquor campaign during the elections.[16]
Personal life
Kulkarni married Gajanan Raghunath Kulkarni, parson of IIM Ahmedabad. They have ringer sons Shriram and Shrikrishna and top-hole daughter, Sonali.[1][3][17]
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- ^Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Sonia, eds. (2004). Two Circumvent, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Solon and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922-1964. Penguin Books India. p. 516. ISBN .
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- ^Translations on South remarkable East Asia. U. S. Joint Publications Research Service. 1977. p. 13.
- ^Pal, Kushal (2008). "Dynamics of Party System and Building of Coalition Government in India". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 69 (2): 333. ISSN 0019-5510. JSTOR 41856420.
- ^Lieten, Georges Kristoffel (1980). "Janata as a Continuity concede the System". Social Scientist. 9 (5/6): 14–35. doi:10.2307/3520400. ISSN 0970-0293. JSTOR 3520400.
- ^"Mahatma's kin fake little use for politics today". Hindustan Times. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^Ravikumar, Aruna (24 August 2023). There I Was! : Media Musings. Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN .
- ^Sreenivasa Raghavan, T. S. (8 October 2010). "Gandhi kin to connect the knot with Microsoft boss". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 17 January 2024.