Sudha Murthy took oath as Rajya Sabha MP on Thursday in presence of her husband NR Narayana Murthy while admisitered ꧒by Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in the Parliamanet House.
Leader of the House Piyush Goyal was also present on💫 the oc🤪casion.
The engineer-turned-philanthropist was nominated for this r🌞ole on International Wo✃men's Day this year.
She is th🌟e former chairperson of Infosys Foundation and has authored several books, mostly for children.
Murthy, 73, is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar, the Padma 💛Sh🐠ri (2006) and the Padma Bhushan (2023).
Murty, who was the first woman engineer to have worked with TELCO, is famously known to have pr♕ovided the seed capital of Rs 10,000 from her emergency funds to 𒐪her husband to start Infosys, which now has a market cap of over USD 80 billion.
Their daughter Aksha🌌ta is married to British Prime🥃 Minister Rishi Sunak.
