Chandraprabha Urs

Chandraprabha Urs (1946–2016) was an Indian National Congress politician from Karnataka. She was a member of the 10th Lok Sabha and Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

Chandraprabha was born on 25 May 1946 in Hunsur, Mysore district. Her father D. Devaraj Urs was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and went on to become the Chief Minister of Karnataka. She graduated from the Smt. VHD Central Institute of Home Science with a degree in library science.

As a member of the Janata Party, Urs won the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1983 from Hunsur and was appointed the Minister for Social Welfare, Sericulture and excise in Ramakrishna Hegde's cabinet. Later she joined the INC and served her second term in the state assembly from 1989 to 1991. In the Indian general election, 1991, INC made her its official candidate from Mysore against Bharatiya Janata Party's Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, the titular Maharaja of Mysore. She polled 2,25, 881 votes against his 2,08,999; defeating him by a margin of 16,882 votes.

She married M.C. Mohan Raj Urs. Urs died on 3 May 2016 at a Mysore hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.