India’s First Governance

by basic mahiti8th July 20198th July 2019

First President of the Indian National Congress: Womesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885

First President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kripalani, until November 1947

First President of India: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950–62)

First Chief Election Commissioner of India: Sukumar Sen

First Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

First person to resign from the Central Cabinet: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

First Vice-President of India: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

First Prime Minister of India: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–64); India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected

First Deputy Prime Minister of India: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–50)

First Minister of Law and Justice: B. R. Ambedkar

First Leader of the Opposition: A. K. Gopalan

First Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party

First Non-Congress government: Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)

First Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party: E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957

First Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996

First Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996

First Non Congress Prime Minister to serve a full term: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

First Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991, H.D.Deve Gowda

First Viceroy of India: Lord Canning, 1858

First Governor-General of India: Lord William Bentinck, 1833

First Governor-General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten, 1947

First Indian Governor-General of Indian Union: C. Rajagopalachari, 1948

First Chief Justice of India: H. J. Kania (1947–51)

First Sikh Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh (2004–14)

First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain (1967–69)

First Sikh President: Giani Zail Singh

First Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore, 1863

First Speaker of Lok Sabha: G. V. Mavlankar (1952–56)

First Finance Minister of Independent India: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947–49), for others see First Nehru ministry

First Presentation of the first budget after India’s Independence: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947

First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabhai Patel

First Indian President to die in Office: Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969

First Actor to become Chief Minister in India: M. G. Ramachandran, Tamil Nadu.

First Actress to become Chief Minister in India: Janaki Ramachandran, Tamil Nadu.

First Actress to become Chief Minister in India by winning election: J. Jayalalithaa, Tamil Nadu.

First Chief Minister to die in Office: Gopinath Bordoloi, Assam.

First Woman Chief Minister to die in Office: J. Jayalalithaa, Tamil Nadu.

First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office: Morarji Desai, 1979

First Woman Indian Prime Minister to die in Office: Indira Gandhi, 1984

First Prime Minister born after India’s independence: Narendra Modi, born 17 September 1950

First Chairperson of Lokpal of India: Pinaki Chandra Ghose

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