Former MP Tara Singh Varma (78) Passed Away

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Singh Varma told her colleagues in 2000 that she would resign as an MP because she was suffering from an incurable form of cancer. That turned out to be incorrect.

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Former GroenLinks politician Tara Singh Varma has passed away at the age of 78. Her family informed the NOS of her death. Singh Varma served twelve years on the Amsterdam City Council and seven years in the House of Representatives for GroenLinks, where she was, among other things, a member of the parliamentary inquiry committee into the Bijlmer disaster. She is primarily remembered for her high-profile farewell in 2001.

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The Groenlinks politician was the first woman of color in parliament to work for women and minorities, but was discredited by lies about a terminal illness.

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Tara Singh-Varma has passed away at the age of 78. Her foster daughter informed the NOS of her death. Singh-Varma served as a city councilor in Amsterdam between 1982 and 1994 and was part of the parliamentary inquiry committee that investigated the Bijlmer disaster. In 2001, she came under scrutiny when she lied about the reason for her departure as a Member of Parliament; following that affair, she went to work at a Surinamese sandwich shop in…