The MLA we are going to tell you about is Divya Spandana, who was known professionally as Ramya, is an Indian film actress and politician who was the Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Mandya, Karnataka. She primarily works in Kannada film industry, but also appears in Tamil and Telugu language films.
Spandana made her acting debut in the 2003 Kannada-language film Abhi. Although she has sporadically worked in Tamil and Telugu films her work in Kannada film industry garnered her greater attention.
She won the Udaya Award and Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the Amrithadhare (2005) and Tananam Tananam (2006) respectively. Her performance as the eponymous heroine in the 2011 romantic drama Sanju Weds Geetha garnered her further critical success and a Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress.
Ramya has also starred in the 2011 blockbuster fantasy film Katari Veera Surasundarangi and other commercially successful films including the 2016 epic-fantasy Nagarahavu.
In 2013, she was in controversy when she filed an FIR against a photo-journalist for taking her pictures without her permission. In August 2016, she was charged with sedition after saying that Pakistan is not hell. In Kannada Cinema, she is also referred to as the Queen of Sandalwood. She has been the Brand Ambassador of IPL team- Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
Spandana joined the Indian National Congress in 2012 as a member of its youth wing; she later won a 2013 by-election to become a Member of Parliament for Mandya constituency in Karnataka but was defeated in a general election the following year. She has been appointed as the head of Congress' digital media team and had been credited by media outlets for having transformed the political party's image on social media.
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