Uma Roy (1919 – 19 December 1999) was 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 Em ...

. 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-past ...

, lower house of the

Parliament of India The Parliament of India (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the R ...

from Malda in 1967. She was the founder of a higher secondary school at Malda. She established a welfare organisation and provided self-employment to the poor and needy women, as a cooperative organisation in Malda.

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Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1919 births 1999 deaths Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal People from Malda district India MPs 1967–1970 Women in West Bengal politics 20th-century Indian women politicians 20th-century Indian politicians Lok Sabha members from West Bengal {{WestBengal-politician-stub