Piloting her own courseRAMA PILOT, wife of the late Rajest Pilot, threw a party last week to celebrate both
basant panchami and her birthday. The ambience was slightly different from the simple farmer’s lunches which her late
husband used to host for the media, a tradition which her son Sachin Pilot still continues. Among the invitees at Rama’s power lunch were Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja, and senior party office-bearer Margaret Alva. Haryana Chief Minister Hooda’s wife and former MP Shama Singh were other high-profile guests. Rama was an
active politician when her husband was still a pilot and not yet in the Congress party. She has been elected to both the Rajasthan Assembly and Parliament and was the first Congress OBC woman representative in the CWC. Though she may have stepped aside for the menfolk in her family, she continues to be active at the grassroots, particularly in Gujjar-dominated areas. Rama was among the first from her party to rush to Nithari when the news of the horrendous murders first broke, her husband’s native village being close by.