Ravindra Varma

Ravindra Varma (9 April 1925 – 10 October 2006) was the Minister for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Morarji Desai Ministry in India from 1977 to 1979.

He was also Chancellor of the Gujarat Vidyapeeth. Varma belonged to the royal family in Mavelikkara in southern Kerala. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Thiruvalla in Kerala in 1962 on a Congress ticket. He was next elected in 1977 from Ranchi in Bihar as a Janata Party candidate. He represented Mumbai North in 7th Lok Sabha from 1980 to 1985.

He died in 2006, aged 81. He is survived by his younger son Harshvardhan Varma. His elder son Goutham and wife Mangala died within a span of a few months in 2015.

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