Sheila Kaul

Sheila Kaul ( Hindi Ś कौल Śīlā Kaul ; born February 7, 1915 in Lucknow , United Provinces , British India ; † June 13, 2015 in Ghaziabad ) was an Indian politician at the Indian National Congress .

Life

Kaul started working as a social worker for the Red Cross in Lucknow in 1953. After working in the city administration, she became a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of Uttar Pradesh in 1968 . In the all-India parliamentary election in 1971 , she first won the seat for the constituency of Lucknow . Also in 1980 and 1984 for Lucknow and 1989 and 1991 for Raebareli , she was elected to the Lok Sabha .

After the parliamentary elections in 1980 she was Minister of State for Education, Culture and Social Affairs under Indira Gandhi until 1984. From 1991 to 1995 she held the post of Minister for Urban Development in the Cabinet under Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and then served as Governor of Himachal Pradesh for five months until April 1996 .

A corruption case from her tenure as minister in the 1990s preoccupied the Indian courts and the almost 100-year-old Kaul two decades later.

Sheila Kaul belonged to the wider circle of the Nehru Gandhi family : She was married to the botanist Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983), whose older sister Kamala was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru .

Web links

Profile at Lok Sabha
Veteran Congress leader Sheila Kaul no more. Obituary in The Times of India on June 14, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Damaging precedent . India Today , November 30, 1996.
Raman Kirpal: President's comments send corruption cases back to cold storage . ( Memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) The Financial Express , February 21, 1998.
SC waives damages imposed on Sheila Kaul . The Hindu , February 20, 2002
Sheila Kaul chargesheeted . The Hindu, April 23, 2003.
^ At 99, fight against ambulance summons . The Telegraph India , April 6, 2013.
SC relief for Sheila Kaul . The Telegraph India, October 20, 2013.
↑ Sonia Gandhi : Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922–1964 . Penguin Books , New Delhi, 2005, p. Xxi
Aruna Asaf Ali , GNS Raghavan: Private Face of a Public Person: A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru . Radiant Publishers, New Delhi, 1989, ISBN 9788170271321 , p. 33.

personal data
SURNAME	Kaul, Sheila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	कौल, शीला (HiS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lucknow
DATE OF DEATH	June 13, 2015
Place of death	Ghaziabad

[1] Damaging precedent . India Today , November 30, 1996.
Raman Kirpal: President's comments send corruption cases back to cold storage . ( Memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) The Financial Express , February 21, 1998.
SC waives damages imposed on Sheila Kaul . The Hindu , February 20, 2002
Sheila Kaul chargesheeted . The Hindu, April 23, 2003.

[2] At 99, fight against ambulance summons . The Telegraph India , April 6, 2013.
SC relief for Sheila Kaul . The Telegraph India, October 20, 2013.

[3] Sonia Gandhi : Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1922–1964 . Penguin Books , New Delhi, 2005, p. Xxi
Aruna Asaf Ali , GNS Raghavan: Private Face of a Public Person: A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru . Radiant Publishers, New Delhi, 1989, ISBN 9788170271321 , p. 33.