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Tara Singh Varma, eerste vrouw met een migratieachtergrond in de Kamer, op 78-jarige leeftijd overleden

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Tara Singh Varma, notable as the first female Member of Parliament with a migration background in the Netherlands, has passed away at the age of 78.

Her political career included a high-profile resignation in 2000, when she informed her parliamentary colleagues that she was stepping down due to a terminal cancer diagnosis, a claim that was later revealed to be untrue.

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