List of female legislative speakers and chairpersons in India
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Lok Sabha
[edit]| Portrait | Speaker (Birth-Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Lok Sabha | |||
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| From | To | Period | |||||
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Meira Kumar (born 1945) |
4 June 2009 |
11 June 2014 |
5 years, 1 day | Indian National Congress | 15th (2009) | |
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Sumitra Mahajan (born 1943) |
15 June 2014 |
17 June 2019[1] |
5 years, 4 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | 16th (2014) | |
State legislature
[edit]State Legislative Assemblies
[edit]This is the list of female Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the legislative assemblies of the Indian states and union territories:
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| No. | Portrait | Name
(Birth–Death) |
Term of office | State/Union territory | Political party | ||||||
| Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||||
| Shanno Devi | 6 December 1966 | 17 March 1967 | 101 days | Haryana | INC | ||||||
| Sumitra Singh (1930–) |
16 January 2004 | 1 January 2009 | 4 years, 351 days | Rajasthan | BJP | ||||||
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Ritu Khanduri Bhushan (1965–) |
26 March 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 327 days | Uttarakhand | BJP | |||||
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Pramila Mallik (1963–) |
22 September 2023 | 3 June 2024 | 255 days | Odisha | BJD | |||||
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Surama Padhy (1960–) |
20 June 2024 | incumbent | 241 days | Odisha | BJP | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ Hebbar, Nistula (2019-04-05). "Sumitra Mahajan says she will not contest, leaves it to BJP to decide on candidate for Indore seat". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-12-22.