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New Delhi: Meira Kumar, a former Lok Sabha Speaker and daughter of towering Congress leaderand former Deputy Prime Minister late Jagjivan Ram is the Opposition’s Presidential candidate.

Meira Kumar, who is also a former diplomat, was the Lok Sabha Speaker from 2009 to 2014. She had resigned from the Indian Foreign Service in 1985 to contest the Lok Sabha polls.