Who is Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly's first woman speaker?
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Daughter of former Uttarakhand chief minister Major General Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, Ritu Khanduri Bhushan is BJP's Kotdwar MLA.
New Delhi: Ritu Khanduri Bhushan was on Saturday (March 26, 2022) elected as the speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Daughter of former Uttarakhand chief minister Major General Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, Ritu Khanduri Bhushan has now become the first woman Speaker of the state assembly.
In the recently concluded Uttarakhand Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had avenged her father's humiliation in Kotdwar and defeated Congress' Surendra Singh Negi by 3,687 votes.
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