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Sudha Murty takes oath as RS MP

March 14, 2024 13:15 IST

Engineer-turned-philanthropist Sudha Murty on Thursday took oath as Rajya Sabha MP in the presence of her husband N R Narayana Murthy.

IMAGE: Sudha Murty with RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Leader of the House Piyush Goyal, after taking oath as a member of the upper house, in New Delhi on March 14, 2024. Photograph: ANI on X

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar administered the oath in his chamber in Parliament House.

Leader of the House Piyush Goyal was also present on the occasion.

 

Murty, 73, the former chairperson of Infosys Foundation and the author of several books, mostly for children, was nominated to the Rajya Sabha on International Women's Day last Friday.

She is also renowned for her contribution to Kannada and English literature and is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar, the Padma Shri (2006) and the Padma Bhushan (2023).

Murty, who was the first woman engineer to have worked with TELCO, is famously known to have provided the seed capital of Rs 10,000 from her emergency funds to her husband to start Infosys, which now has a market cap of over $80 billion.

Her daughter Akshata is married to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

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