Rano M. Shaiza

Rano Mese Shaiza (11 November 1928 – 1 April 2015) was an Indian politician and a member of the United Democratic Party.

Shaiza was the only woman Member of India's Lower House from the state of Nagaland to date.

[2] Her mother Vitulie-ü Iralu was the elder sister of the founder of the Naga separatist movement, Angami Zapu Phizo.

[4] Shaiza contested her first general election in 1977 and defeated the sitting chief minister Hokishe Sema of the Indian National Congress, making her the first woman Member of India's Lower House from the state of Nagaland.

She brokered the meeting between her uncle Angami Zapu Phizo and the then Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai.