Name Sumati Oraon Role Politician | Party Indian National Congress | |
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Lohardaga (st) Constituency Bihar loksabha Election Result 1984 Sumati Oraon INC
Sumati Oraon (born 15 February 1935) was an Indian Politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. Her birthplace was Simdega, in village Gumla in the state Bihar, now Jharkhand. She was the Union Minister of State, Environment and Forests. She was elected to the Lok Sabha from Lohardaga constituency of Bihar now in Jharkhand first in a 1982 bye election 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 from the year 1984 to 1989. Oraon wrote a letter to the then Prime Minister, PV Narsimha Rao sometime during his tenure in the years 1991 to 1996 regarding the condition of the vilagers of Sekuapani, a village in Gumla where the artillary shells of army practice drill fell, sometimes hurting the residents. The proposal of a permanent army cantonment in the area was opossed in the area. </ref>