Lok sabha speaker meera kumar visit

15th Speaker of Lok Sabha (born 1945)

Meira Kumar (born 31 March 1945) is an Indian politician and former diplomat.

She served as the 15th Speaker of Lok Sabha from to , being the first woman to hold the post.

She served as the 15th Speaker of Lok Sabha from to , being the first woman to hold the post.

In five visits to the US, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, Isle of Man and Swaziland, she was only accompanied by Parliament officials while in.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker and senior Congress leader Meira Kumar received an invitation for the Pran Pratishtha ceremony at Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir on Sunday.

Kumar travelled abroad for days until April 30 this year.

Kumar talks to The Indian Express about her memories of the old Parliament building as MPs prepare to move to the new one on Tuesday.

A member of the Indian National Congress, she was the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2004 to 2009, the Minister of Water Resources for a brief period in 2009. She served as the 15th Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014, being the first woman to hold the post.

Kumar became just the second woman to be nominated for president of India by a major political block when she secured the United Progressive Alliance's nomination in 2017.

Prior to being a member of the 15th Lok Sabha, Kumar had been elected earlier to the 8th, 11th, 12th and 14th Lok Sabha.

Kumar was the joint presidential candidate by the leading opposition parties for 2017 presidential election and lost the election to the NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind. Meira Kumar's vote share is the third highest for a losing candidate, that of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy in the 1969 Presidential