Sahodrabai Rai | |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1919 |
Birth Place: | Botrai Village, Patharia, Damoh District, Madhya Pradesh, India |
Constituency1: | Sagar |
Office1: | Member of Parliament |
Term Start1: | 1957 |
Term End1: | 1962 |
Predecessor1: | Sodia Khubchand Daryao Singh |
Successor1: | Jawala Prasad Jyotishi |
Constituency2: | Sagar |
Office2: | Member of Parliament |
Term Start2: | 1971 |
Term End2: | 1977 |
Predecessor2: | Ramsingh Ayarwal |
Successor2: | Narmada Prasad Rai |
Constituency3: | Sagar |
Office3: | Member of Parliament |
Term Start3: | 1980 |
Term End3: | 1981 |
Predecessor3: | Narmada Prasad Rai |
Successor3: | Nandlal Choudhary |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Occupation: | Politician |
Father: | Niren Singh |
Sahodrabai Devi Rai (30 April 1919 – 26 March 1981) was an Indian politician who was a member of the Indian National Congress and served four terms as an MP.
She won the 1957 general election of India from Sagar Lok Sabha constituency. Rai was also elected in 1971 and 1980 general elections of India, also from the Sagar Lok Sabha constituency. She was a member of the 2nd, 5th and 7th Lok Sabhas of India. She was member of 3rd Lok Sabha from Damoh[1]
Rai worked for Hindu–Muslim unity in Noakhali and participated in satyagraha (loosely translated as "insistence on truth") against the British, in 1945. She was also arrested with Indira Gandhi in 1979 and imprisoned for a day.[2] [3]
She died in March 1981 at the age of 61.[4] [5]