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Ritu Khanduri will become the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand

Ritu Khanduri has made all preparations to become the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand. Ritu Khanduri has also filled out the nomination form for this.


Dehradun: After the formation of the new government in Uttarakhand, now the exercise has started for the post of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. BJP MLA Ritu Khanduri on Thursday filed the nomination form for the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in the presence of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and all the cabinet colleagues. At the same time, no representative from the opposition party Congress came to the Legislative Assembly to file a nomination. In such a situation, Ritu Khanduri will be elected unopposed as the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and will become the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the state.


Ritu Khanduri will create history

Since the formation of the state of Uttarakhand, only men have been occupying the post of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Therefore, for the first time in the history of Uttarakhand, this is going to happen when a woman will get the responsibility of holding the post of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. In the Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, State President, all cabinet ministers and all the officials including Ritu Khanduri reached. After this, Ritu Khanduri filed a nomination for the post of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.


Who were present?

During the nomination of BJP MLA Ritu Khanduri from Kotdwar, many MLAs including Chief Minister Pushkar Dhami, Cabinet Minister Premchand Agarwal, Subodh Uniyal, Rekha Arya were present. He completed the nomination process in the office of the Legislative Assembly Secretary. The date of nomination has been kept on March 24 and 25, while the election for the post of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly will be done in the House on March 26. During this, ministers and MLAs including the Chief Minister congratulated and congratulated Ritu Khanduri Bhushan.


Many supporters were also present

During the nomination, the proposers included Khajan Das, Munna Singh Chauhan, Sarita Arya, Durgesh Lal, Chandan Ram Das, Pramod Nainwal, Savita Kapoor, Umesh Sharma, Vinod Kandari, Mahesh Jeena, Bharat Chaudhary, Bhopal Ram Tamta, Bishan Singh Chufal, Satpal Maharaj. , Madan Kaushik, Kailash Chandra Gahatodi were present. Supporters include Suresh Gadiya, Brij Bhushan Gairola, Ram Singh Keda, Shaila Rani, Suresh Chauhan, Mohan Singh Bisht, Shakti Lal, Renu Bisht, Shiv Arora, Anil Nautiyal, Saurabh Bahuguna, Rekha Arya, Subodh Uniyal and Dewan Singh Bisht. were present.


Ritu Khanduri Bhushan expressed gratitude

After filing the nomination, Ritu Khanduri Bhushan expressed her gratitude to the central leadership and said that she is happy that she was made a candidate for the post of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, respecting women in the state of Uttarakhand. He said that after becoming the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, she would work according to the expectations and aspirations of the people of the state. At the same time, she will remain committed to discharging the parliamentary traditions of the House. She further said that she would rise above party politics and work. At the same time, respect the dignity of the post.


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