India’s First Women speaker of Lok Sabha : Meira Kumar

India’s First Women speaker of Lok Sabha : Meira Kumar


Meira Kumar is been nominated for the post of Lok Shaba Speaker by Congress. She will become the first women to attain this high post.
Meira Kumar, who has joined as minister of for Water Resources in newly formed UPA government, has resigned her union minister and said that she has been nominated for the post of lok shaba speaker.
She thanked UPA head Soni Gandhi, Prime Minister Man Mohan Sigh and other UPA allies for choosing her for the post of Lok Shaba Speaker.
Meira Kumar, is the daughter of former deputy PM late Jagjivan Ram, she join Indian Foreign Service in 1960s and quit the job in Indian Foreign Service in 1985 to join politics.

Meira Kumar, five-time Lok shaba MP was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh in 1985. she lost the election in 1999 from Delhi's Karol Bagh constituency and again she was re-elected in 2004 from Sasaram in Bihar and she joined Dr Man Mohan Singh government has Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment.
She done a law degree, Kumar became a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association in 1980. Her Husband is a Supreme Court lawyer and she have three children’s.