Meira Kumar | Meira Kumar Biography | Meira Kumar Profile | Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar
Meira Kumar entered electoral politics in 1985 and was elected fromBijnor in Uttar Pradesh defeating Ram Vilas Paswan and Mayawati, two
powerful dalit leaders of today. She was a member of the eleventh and
twelfth Lok Sabha's from Karol Bagh in Delhi. She lost her seat in the
BJP wave of 1999, but was able to get reelected with a record majority
from her father's former constituency of Sasaram in Bihar in 2004 and
again in 2009.
She was inducted into the Manmohan Singh cabinet, as Minister of
Social Justice and Empowerment in 2004 and is presently the Union
Minister for Water Resources. She is the presumptive nominee of the
ruling UPA government for the position of Speaker of the Lok Sabha. If
elected, she will be first women speaker of the Indian Parliament.
Born in Patna in 1945, Meira Kumar is the daughter of the former
Deputy Prime Minister and prominent dalit leader, Babu Jagjivan Ram
and freedom fighter, Indrani Devi. Her husband, Manjul Kumar is a
Supreme Court lawyer and she has three children, Anshul, Swati and
Devangna. All are married.
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