Sucheta Kripalani, the first woman CM of Independent India and a noted freedom fighter, was born on June 25, 1908, to a Bengali family in Ambala, Haryana. Sucheta Kripalani's father S.N. Majumdar was a nationalist man even after being a doctor under the British government. Sucheta Kripalani started working as a lecturer at Banaras Hindu University after receiving her education from Indraprastha and St. Stephen's College of Delhi University.
She was married to Acharya Jeevatram Bhagwandas Kripalani in 1936. After marriage, Sucheta actively joined the freedom struggle. Like contemporary women like Aruna Asif Ali and Usha Mehta, Sucheta Kripalani joined the freedom struggle during the Quit India Movement. Sucheta Kripalani worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi in the riots that took place during the partition of India. Sucheta Kripalani was one of the women who were included in the Constitution Committee of India.
After India's independence, Sucheta Kripalani was actively associated with the politics of North India. In 1952, she was made a member of the Lok Sabha and a member of the New Delhi Assembly in 1957. In 1962, she was elected as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly from Kanpur. She became the CM of Uttar Pradesh in 1963 and with this, she took the distinction of becoming the first woman CM of the country. Won the 14th Lok Sabha election from the Gonda assembly constituency in 1967. She retired in 1971.
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