“It is a privilege and an honor to be nominated as the United Opposition’s candidate for the post of Vice President of India,” said Margaret Alva, Vice President of the Opposition and veteran politician.
It is a privilege and an honor to be nominated as the candidate of United Opposition for the post of Vice President of India. I accept this nomination with great humility and thank the Leaders of the Opposition for believing in me.
Jai Hind
— Margaret Alva (@alva_margaret) 17 July 2022
“I accept this nomination with great humility and thank the leaders of the opposition for believing in me,” she said in a tweet. – His first reaction after the announcement.
This evening, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has fielded Margaret Alva against NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar, who was also a former Union minister and governor of several states.
“17 parties are on board for this unanimous decision. Our collective view is that Alva will file her nomination for the post of Vice President on Tuesday.
“We are trying to contact Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal. Last time they supported our joint presidential candidate,” the NCP chief told news agency PTI.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said, ‘We are all together in this election’. Incidentally, Shiv Sena has put its weight behind NDA’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu.
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who is margaret alva
Margaret Alva has been a Lok Sabha MP from 1999 to 2004 and Rajya Sabha MP from 1974 to 1998 for almost 30 years. He has also served as a Union Minister in several terms of the Congress government and as the Governor of several states including Goa and Rajasthan.
Margaret Alva has served on some of Parliament’s most prestigious committees – the Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU), the Committee on Public Accounts (PAC), and the Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs, among others.
In 1986, she was elected chair of the first SAARC Ministerial Meeting on Women in Development and the UNICEF-sponsored Conference on Children in South Asia, which highlighted the plight of the girl child and announced 1987 as the heads of government of SAARC. Girl’s Year”.
Three years later, she chaired a core group appointed by the Government of India to draft a Perspective Plan for Women to detail development strategies for women.
She represented India at all major UN conferences during the ‘Decade of Women’.
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