Bangalore :
Less than a month ago, Sandalwood actor Ramya may not have imagined that she would throw up her fledgling apparel business and jump tracks to enter the portals of Parliament as MP.
On Monday, when Ramya took oath in Kannada as MP from Mandya Lok Sabha constituency, she became the second person from the Kannada film industry and the same constituency, after MH Ambareesh, to do so. Aged 30, she is also the youngest among the 28 MPs from Karnataka.
Billed as a top star in Kannada film industry, Ramya has two films on hand. She completed 60% shooting for director Vijay Prasad’s ‘Neer Dose’ opposite Jaggesh and 30% for Rajendra Singh Babu’s ‘Aryan’ opposite Shivraj Kumar. A director said she has agreed to complete both assignments. Ramya had also signed ‘Dil Ka Raaja’ with Prajwal Hegde.
Ramya was shopping in Jaipur on August 2 for an apparel business she was to start, when she got a call from chief minister Siddaramaiah asking her to rush back to Bangalore to file her nomination papers, as August 3 was the last date.
“Give me a couple of minutes, I’ll have to consult my father (foster father RT Narayan),” the actor is reported to have told the CM. Getting the go-ahead from Narayan, she landed in Bangalore the next day and drove down to Mandya, 60km from the city, to file her nomination papers. But as fate would have it, Narayan who sat through the entire night preparing the affidavits for her to file the nomination papers died watching from the crowd his foster daughter waving out to.
Destiny’s child as she may be called, Ramya was ushered into the Congress by senior MLA DK Shiva Kumar. In April 2011, she was inducted into the party during AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with the Youth Congress (YC) in Bangalore. Beyond being a YC member and campaigning in some constituencies during the legislative assembly elections in May, she was seldom seen in party events. However, she had set the 2014 Lok Sabha polls as the target to stake her claim for a ticket from Mandya, which came sooner than she expected.
Along with Ramya, Shiva Kumar’s brother D K Suresh Kumar took oath in Kannada as MP from Bangalore Rural.
source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Bangalore> Ramya / TNN / August 27th, 2013