Question: Name the Former Lok Sabha Speaker who died on 4 March 2016?
(a) Balram Jakhar
(b) K.S. Hedge
(c) P.A.Sangma
(d) Neelam Sanjeev Reddy
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- On 4 March 2016 the Former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Agitok Sangma died of heart attack at New Delhi. He was 68.
- He served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998 and Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990.
- He was born on September 1, 1947 in village Chapahati in the West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya.
- In 1977 Sangma entered the national politics; He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tura constituency in his home state and won the Lok Sabha seat for nine terms from here.
- Till the formation of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) along with Sharad Pawar and Tariq Anwar in 1999, he was part of the Indian National Congress.
- He also founded National People’s Party (India) on 6 January 2013.
- He wrote a book named “A Life in Politics: Selected Speeches and Lectures 1979-2004” which was widely read and was greatly appreciated.
Reference:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/former-lok-sabha-speaker-pa-sangma-passes-away/article8313507.ece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._A._Sangma
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Politics-Selected-Speeches-Lectures/dp/9350291517