Another reappearance for Gandhi’s kin, Margaret Alva
A veteran of Congress, Margaret Alva is a joint opposition candidate for vice president.
The vocation of the soft-spoken and dandified Alva has primarily been a dream run, despite her standoff with Congress President Gandhi over the issue of family claim in ticket distribution.
During her four decades in politics, she held several positions, including a union minister, a five-time Congress MP, and then governor.
Her selection as the VP candidate signals the opposition’s desire to field a candidate who is representative of a diverse country in the forthcoming Karnataka elections.
When Nivedith’s ticket claim was shot down by the then party in charge of the state, Alva publicly alleged the sale of Congress tickets in Karnataka.
When she was dropped from the AICC general secretary position, she returned and became the governor of Rajasthan.
She was close to both of them, but her son served in the team of advisors for Rahul Gandhi until he resigned as Congress President.
She was elected to the upper house of Parliament at 32 years old and stayed there for four terms before leaving in 1998. She functioned as an associate of the 13th Lok Sabha after succeeding in her first election.
When she was just 42 years old, Rajiv Gandhi made her Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs.
Women’s rights, equal remuneration and marriage laws, and reservation for women in local bodies were all amended by Alva during her three decades in Parliament.
The Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training was set up to improve the legislative function of Parliament after she lost the Lok Sabha election in 2004.
She was made the AICC general secretary in Maharashtra, Punjab, and Haryana.
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