{"id":3242,"date":"2008-05-16T14:18:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/16\/city-elects-asian-woman-major\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:07:16","slug":"city-elects-asian-woman-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/16\/city-elects-asian-woman-major\/","title":{"rendered":"City elects Asian woman major"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><b>Manjula Sood UK\u2019s first female Asian Lord Mayor<\/b><\/p>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"220\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ManjulaSood232x180.jpg\"\/>BRITAIN\u2019S first Asian woman Lord Mayor has taken up her office in Leicester.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Councillor Manjula Sood was sworn in at Leicester Town Hall on Thursday evening. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>She has become the first Asian woman in the country to take on the role of Lord Mayor. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s a great honour for me to represent the city\u201d, she said. \u201cThis will be an historic time for Leicester in many ways, and I am really looking forward to doing all I can to promote what\u2019s going on here across the world.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Cllr Sood first became a Leicester city councillor in October 1996, for Latimer ward. She was inspired to take up the role following the death of her husband Paul Sood, who had been the councillor for that ward until his death in May 1996.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn May last year she became the first Asian woman to join the city council\u2019s Cabinet, with the new portfolio of health and well-being.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nShe said she would also be supporting the Special Olympic Games which will be hosted by Leicester next year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe Special Olympics raise awareness of the capabilities of people with learning disabilities, and give all those who take part the opportunity to achieve amazing things\u201d, she said.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u201cThey encourage and inspire everyone who is involved in them, and it is my aim to get every citizen involved in the Leicester games in some way\u201d.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTaking the role of Lady Mayoress is Sheenal Sejpal, who will be marrying Cllr Sood\u2019s youngest son \u2013 Mitesh \u2013 later this month. Mitesh, and her older son Manish will be her consorts.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCllr Sood moved to Leicester from the Punjab to join her husband in 1970. She was a primary school teacher in the city for almost 20 years.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manjula Sood UK\u2019s first female Asian Lord Mayor BRITAIN\u2019S first Asian woman Lord Mayor has taken up her office in Leicester. &#13; Councillor Manjula Sood was sworn in at Leicester Town Hall on Thursday evening. &#13; She has become the first Asian woman in the country to take on the role of Lord Mayor. &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}