Ritu Khanduri becomes first woman speaker of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
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Ritu Khanduri on Saturday became the first woman speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The BJP's Kotdwar MLA had filed her nomination papers on Thursday. Khanduri, the daughter of former chief minister Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, was also the state BJP Mahila Morcha president. She had defeated former minister Surendra Singh Negi of the Congress in Kotdwar by more than 3,000.