Why Meera
- Helps correct the perceived gender bias of the foreign ministry
- Considered close to Sonia Gandhi
- Is a career diplomat. Political appointees have to resign in case of a change in government.
- S.S. Menon retires in July-end
- Nirupama Rao and Nalin Suri are frontrunners. Rao is the favourite.
- Meera wanted the post of Permanent Representative in UN
- But that is kept for Rao or Suri, whoever isn't foreign secretary
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