Who was elected as the first woman speaker of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in March 2022?
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Correct answer: A
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The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Ritu Khanduri
Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, an MLA from Uttarakhand's Kotdwar assembly, became the first woman speaker of the state assembly on 26 March 2022.
- On this occasion, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that women have played an important role in the formation of the Uttarakhand state.
- Congress MLA Pritam Singh also congratulated Ritu Khanduri Bhushan on becoming the first woman speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly.
- She has become an MLA for the second time. In the last assembly elections, she became an MLA from Yamkeshwar.
- Born on January 29, 1965, in Nainital, Khanduri is the daughter of former Chief Minister and former Union Minister Major General (Retd) Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri.
- She has graduated from Raghunath Girls College, Meerut (UP), and is a Postgraduate (PG) in History from Rajasthan University.
- Khanduri has worked as a faculty member at Amity University in Noida from the year 2006 to 2017 and has authored three books on Indian history.