Sumati Oraon (born 15 February 1935) is an Indian Politician belonging to the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

. Her birthplace was

Simdega Simdega is a city in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Simdega is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and Subdivision. The city stands at an elevation of approximately 418 metres (1371 feet) above sea level and cove ...

, in village

Gumla Gumla is a city which is the district headquarters in the Gumla subdivision of the Gumla district in the state of Jharkhand, India. History Gumla began as a hamlet. A week-long "Cow Fair" (''Gau-Mela'') took place every year, where items in ...

in the state

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

, now

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . ...

. She was the Union Minister of State, Welfare (1987–88), Union Minister of State, Environment and Forests(1988–89). She was elected to the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-pas ...

from

Lohardaga Lohardaga is a town and the district headquarters of Lohardaga district in the Indian state of Jharkhand, west of Ranchi, the state capital. Earlier (early 1900s) Lohardaga was the commissionary headquarters for Chotanagpur. It was only late ...

constituency of

now in

first in a 1982

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and again in 1984, with 47% of votes and 1989 with 59.17% of votes. Sumati Oraon lost the election in the year 1991 to Lalit Oraon who won by a margin of 14.6%. Oraon worked especially for the upliftment of the tribals her constituency under the leadership of

Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to bec ...

from the year 1984 to 1989. Oraon wrote a letter to the then

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, PV Narsimha Rao sometime during his tenure in the years 1991 to 1996 regarding the condition of the villagers of Sekuapani, a village in

where the artillery shells of army practice drill fell, sometimes hurting the residents. The proposal of a permanent army cantonment in the area was opposed in the area.

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Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1935 births Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Jharkhand India MPs 1980–1984 India MPs 1984–1989 India MPs 1989–1991 Women in Jharkhand politics Lok Sabha members from Jharkhand 20th-century Indian women politicians 20th-century Indian politicians People from Lohardaga district Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar {{Jharkhand-INC-politician-stub