Sumitra Singh (born 1930) is a politician from the Indian state of Rajasthan. She was the first woman speaker in Rajasthan's history. In 2003 she won the assembly election on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket and was unanimously elected Speaker of the 12th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly which she held until January 2009. Singh was elected to the Assembly for nine out of twelve terms (1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1985, 1990, 1998, 2003) from the Jhunjhunu constituency.
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