India gets its first woman Speaker in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament. Meira Kumar has created history by becoming the first woman to occupy one of the highest constitutional posts in the country.
The 64-year-old Meira Kumar was unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
She was elected from the Sasaram Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar in the 2009 general elections.
Soft-spoken but a firm pursuer of her social missions, Kumar is the daughter of late Jagjivan Ram, who was a freedom fighter and a great social reformer.
Kumar, who had a career in the Indian Foreign Service, had joined politics in 1973 on the request of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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