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Name : Sucheta kriplani
Birth : 25 June 1908
Place of Birth : Ambala , Punjab ( Now in haryana )
Death : 01 december 1974
Reason of famous : Sucheta kriplani was the first cheif minister of Uttar pradesh from 1963 to 1967
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- She inspired to join the freedom movement. She was jailed by the british .She even worked closely with Mahatma gandhi on August 14, 1947 . She sang the National anthem before PM nehru made his famous " Trusty with Density " Speech.
- She was born in Ambala , Punjab ( Now in haryana ) to a bengali brahma family. She studied at indraprastha college and punjab university before becoming a professor of contitutional History at Banaras Hindu university.
- In 1938 she married acharya kriplani , a prominet figure of the indian national congress, who twenty years her senior .
- Like her contemporarises Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha mehta , she came to the farefront during the quit india movement .
- she later worked closely with the Mahatma Gandhi during the partition riots. she accompained him to noakhali in 1946.
- She was one of the few women who were elected to the constituent assembly and was part of the subcommittee that drafted the indian constitution.
- For the Lok Sabha elections in 1952 , she contested from new delhi. She had joined the short - lived party founded by her husband the year before.
- Five years later , she was reelected from the same constituency , but this time as a congress candidate . She was elected on last time to the Lok Sabha in 1967, from Gonda constituency in uttar pradesh.
- Meanwhile, she also had become a member of the uttar pradesh legislative assembly. From 1960 to 1963 , she served as minister , community development and industry in UP government.
- In order 1963, she became the cheif minister of Uttar pradesh , the first women to hold that position in any indian state.
- She retired from politics in 1971 and remained in seclusion till her death in 1974.
