Nagma Mallick from Kasaragod appointed Indian Ambassador to Japan
New Delhi: Senior IFS officer from the 1991 batch and current Indian Ambassador to Poland Nagma Mohamed Mallick has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Japan, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has stated in a press release on Thursday.
Nagma Mallick, who will soon take up her assignment, will be the second lady officer to be the Indian Ambassador to Japan after Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa.
Kasaragod-based Nagma Mallick, who has served in the Foreign Services for more than three decades, has held various important posts in France, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Brunei and currently Poland during her diplomatic career. She also handled the relations with Russia and Africa as an officer in the Prime Minister’s Officer (PMO). She was the first woman to be appointed as the Deputy Chief of Protocol.
Nagma Mallick is the daughter of late Mohamed Habibullah and Zulu Banu, residents of Fort Road in Kasaragod. She is also the niece of the famous writer, the late Sara Aboobacker.
Her father Habibullah had shifted with his family to New Delhi after he was posted to the Central Government's Department of Overseas Communications.
Nagma Mallick was born and raised in New Delhi. An alumna of St Stephen’s College and School of Economics, she holds a degree in English literature and MA in Economics.
She began her career as a diplomat in the MEA and was first sent to Paris to represent the Indian Mission at the UNESCO. She has also held various other posts in the Ministry.
Nagma Mallick has served in the offices of former Prime Ministers IK Gujral and Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was the first Indian woman officer to be appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Protocol Division in the MEA.
She is interested in English literature and performs classical dance. She is fluent in five languages, English, French, Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam.
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Women's quota bill would have ensured defeat of democracy, Constitution: Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the passage of the women's quota bill would have ensured a "total defeat of democracy", alleging that the legislation, linked with a delimitation exercise, was a political tool designed to reduce the voice of states.
Thackeray, in a post on X, claimed that the Bill would have amended the Constitution for the political means of the ruling regime to increase seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories.
"The very amendment that would have ensured the total defeat of democracy and the Constitution in India stands rejected by the unity of the Opposition MPs," he wrote.
The legislation should have been called "Delimitation to ensure unfair victory Bill", the former minister said, adding that there was a genuine need to enable 33 per cent reservation for women in the current number of seats.
"Now, it is up to the government to ensure that it is implemented in the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 elections and all elections across India, if that is the real intent of the government," he wrote.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated on Friday in the Lower House.
While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.
According to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
