| Name
/ Title |
Ganesh Vasudev
(G.V.) MAVALANKAR |
| Date of
Birth |
November 27, 1888 |
| Date of
Death |
February 27, 1956 |
| Identity |
Indian Independence Activist and the First Speaker of
the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- August 14, 1947: In 1946,
he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly and
remained the President of the Central Legislative Assembly
till this day.
- August 20, 1947: He headed
a committee constituted on this day to study and report on
the need to separate the Constitution-making role of the
Constituent Assembly from its legislative role.
- November 17, 1947: He was
elected to the office of speaker of the Constituent Assembly
(Legislative) on this day.
- November 26, 1947: With the
adoption of the Constitution of India on this day, the
nomenclature of the Constituent Assembly (Legislative) was
changed to the Provisional Parliament. So he became the
Speaker of the Provisional Parliament on this day and
continued to occupy the office till the 1st Lok Sabha was
constituted in 1952.
- May 15, 1952: He became the
first Speaker of the Lok Sabha on this day.
- January 13, 1956: He
resigned from the office of the first Speaker of the Lok
Sabha on this day, because of ill health.
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| General |
- He was popularly known as Dadasaheb.
- was an independence activist, , then Speaker of
the Constituent Assembly of India, and later the first
Speaker of the Lok SabhaHis son Purushottam Mavalankar was
later elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Gujarat.
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