Firsts |
Person |
First Chief Election Commissioner |
Sukumar Sen |
First Chief Justice of India |
H. J. Kania (1947–1951) |
First Chief Minister to die in Office |
C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu |
First Deputy Prime Minister |
Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950) |
First Finance Minister of Independent India |
R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949) |
First Governor-General of Independent India |
Lord Mountbatten, 1947 |
First Governor-General of India |
Warren Hastings, 1773 |
First Home Minister of India |
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
First Indian Governor-General of Indian Union |
C Rajagopalachari, 1948 |
First Indian ICS Officer |
Satyendranath Tagore, 1863 |
First Indian President to die in Office |
Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969 |
First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office |
Morarji Desai, 1979 |
First Industries and Supplies Minister |
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
First Law Minister of India |
B. R. Ambedkar |
First Leader of Opposition |
A. K. Gopalan |
First Muslim President |
Zakir Hussain (1967–1969) |
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 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 person to resign from the Central Cabinet |
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
First Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence |
R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947 |
First President |
Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962) |
First President of the Indian National Congress |
Wyomesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885 |
First President of the Indian National Congress of independent India |
Acharya Kripalani, till November 1947 |
First Prime Minister |
Jawaharlal Nehru. |
First Prime Minister from South India |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991, |
First Prime Minister to be born after India's independence |
Narendra Modi , 17 September 1950(birth) |
First Prime Minister to be voted out of office |
Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party |
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 Sikh President |
Giani Zail Singh |
First Sikh Prime Minister |
Manmohan Singh (2004–2014) |
First Speaker of Lok Sabha |
G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956) |
First Vice-President |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
First Viceroy of India |
Lord Canning, 1858 |
First woman Cabinet Minister in India |
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
First woman Chief Minister |
Sucheta Kriplani |
First woman Finance Minister of State Government in India |
Dr. Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt. |
First woman Governor of a State |
Sarojini Naidu (Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–49) |
First woman Home Minister |
Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt. |
First woman Minister in India |
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
First Woman President |
Pratibha Patil (2007–2012) |
First woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha |
Meira Kumar |
First Women Railway Minister of India |
Mamata Banerjee |
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