SIDDHARTHA SMT D K THARA DEVI Biography

Members Bioprofile

SIDDHARTHA, SMT. D.K. THARA DEVI

[Cong. (I) – Chikmagalur (Karnataka)]

1974-75

1978-81

1981-85

1984

1990

1991

25 June, 1991

Other Positions held

26th December, 1953

Mudigere in Distt. Chikmagalur (Karnataka)

Married

Shri Siddhartha Reddy

B.A.,

Agriculturist, Coffee Grower, Political Activist and Social Worker

P.O. Mudigere, Distt. Chikmagalur
(Karnataka)

151, South Avenue, New Delhi-110011. Tel.
3010459, 3792588

Chairman, Family and Child Welfare Project,
Mudigere

President, Mudigere Taluka Development
Board

Member, Karnataka Legislative Assembly

Elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth)

Elected to Rajya Sabha

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth)

Union Minister of State, Health &
Family Welfare

Chairman, Committee on Government
Assurances, Karnataka Legislative Assembly

President, Municipal Council, Mudigere

Vice-president, D.C.C., Chikmagalur

General Secretary, P.C.C., Karnataka

Joint Secretary, A.I.C.C.

Convenor, Women’s Wing of Karnataka Pradesh
Congress Committee

Member, Board of Directors, Coffee Board,

Member, Board of Directors, Spices Board.

Founder-President, Mahila Kaigarika
Sahaka-Sangha Mudigere; organised students lo collect funds and materials
for the war widows of China and Pakistan war; working for the upliftment of
women, child welfare and the betterment of Tribals and Scheduled Castes;
working for the welfare of destitutes and widows and for the elimination of
untouchability; courted arrest during 1977-78

Protection of Environment, Welfare of
Coffee Spices and Coconut Growers and Labourers; Alleviation of women’s
exploitation

Gardening, music, reading, astronomy,
ornothology and watching historical movies

Yoga, badminton and carrom

Afghanistan, China, Hong Kong, North Korea,
Sri Lanka, USA and USSR; Chairman, Delegation to Sri Lanka; Member,
Delegation to Special Youth Congress Afghanistan 1989; United Nations 41st
General Assembly Session, Indo-Soviet Friendship to USSR 1985,
Parliamentary Delegation to North Korea 1986, International Coffee
Organisation, London, 1988.