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| Meira describes nomination |
| Meira describes nomination for LS Speaker as historic moment
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| INDIA
, 2-June-2009
4:11:23 AM |
| Meira Kumar, UPA's candidate for Lok Sabha Speakership, on Tuesday termed her nomination for the post as a "historic and an overwhelming" moment.
"It is a historic moment. It is a very overwhelming moment for me," Kumar, a five-term member of the Lok Sabha, told reporters after the UPA filed nomination papers on her behalf for the post of Speaker. She said leaders of all political parties had proposed her name for the coveted post.
"It is a historic moment as a woman has been considered for this important and august post," Kumar said. A diplomat-turned-politician and Congress' dalit face, Kumar is the daughter of former Deputy Prime Minister late Jagjivan Ram.
The 64-year-old Kumar quit the Indian Foreign Service in 1985 to join politics. Soft-spoken Kumar first joined the government as a deputy minister in the P V Narasimha Rao ministry and was made a minister with a Cabinet rank when UPA took over the reins of power from NDA after the 2004 Lok Sabha polls. The decision to nominate her for the Speaker's post comes just two days after she took charge of the Water Resources Ministry. She then resigned as Union minister
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