Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Ritu Khanduri has been elected as the Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly on Saturday. Kanduri was elected as the fifth Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. She has now become the first woman speaker of the state assembly.
She succeeded BJP's Premchand Aggarwal, whose term ended on March 10. She is the daughter of former Uttarakhand chief minister Major General Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri and the wife of IAS officer Rajesh Bhushan, who is the current Union Health Secretary.
Ritu filed her nomination papers before the secretary of the legislative assembly Mukesh Singhal in presence of chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and other senior BJP leaders, in Dehradun on Thursday.
In the recently concluded Uttarakhand Assembly election, she defeated Congress' Surendra Singh Negi by 3,687 votes from Kotdwar.
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