[ZESTCaste] Country’s first female Dalit mayor Aruna Sainya passes away

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article61272.ece

Country's first female Dalit mayor Aruna Sainya passes away
PTI

Aruna Sainya, the country's first female Dalit Mayor, has died
following a prolonged illness, family sources said on Monday.

45-year-old Sainya, who breathed her last on Sunday, was suffering
from cancer for the last six months, they said.

Apart from being the country's first female Dalit Mayor, she was the
first woman Mayor of the Gwalior Municipal Corporation (GMC) from
1995-2000, the sources said.

Ms. Sainya, who was elected GMC Mayor at the age of 31, was
instrumental in regularising 648 daily wage workers for the first time
in the GMC's history, they said.

Her last rites were performed last evening at the Laxmiganj
Crematorium, the sources said.

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