Indian History
Sucheta Kriplani, Professor of Constitutional History at BHU. She was the chief minister of UP from 1963-67. Born at Ambala, Punjab, studied at the Panjab University. Participated in the Quit India Movement. Elected to the Constituent Assembly of India. She was the one who sang the Vande Mataram in the Constituent Assembly on the 14th-15th August 1947, as a prelude to Nehru giving his famous mid-night speech welcoming India's independence. Sucheta Kriplani defeated the Congress candidate in the elections of 1952. In the next election she was re-elected from the same constituency but, this time on the Congress ticket. Minister of Labour, Industry and Community Development in the UP government from 1960 to 1963. Became Chief Minister of UP from 1963 to 1967. The first woman chief minister of India.
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