Maya Ray | |
Birth Date: | 9 February 1927 |
Birth Place: | Dibrugarh, Assam, British India[1] |
Residence: | Kolkata |
Death Place: | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Constituency: | Raiganj, (West Bengal) |
Term Start: | 1972 |
Term End: | 1977 |
Successor: | Md. Hayat Ali |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Spouse: | Siddhartha Shankar Ray |
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.
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.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
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.
She died of kidney failure on 11 March 2013, two and a quarter years after her husband died.[7]