Sucheta Kriplani

Sucheta Kriplani Biography

Sucheta Kriplani was an Indian politician and freedom fighter who was the first women Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. She belonged to the Indian National Congress party.

Sucheta was born on 25^th June 1908 in Ambala in Haryana in a Bengali family. Her father’s name was S. N. Majumdar and he was doctor by profession. She completed her education at Indraprastha College and St. Stephen’s College at Delhi and started her career as a Professor of Constitutional History at Banaras Hindu University. He married Acharya Kriplani in 1936 and after her married she was involved with the Indian National Congress.

She participated in the Quit India Movement and worked with Mahatma Gandhi during the partition riots. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly and took part in the subcommittee that drafted the Indian Constitution. In the Independence Session of the Constituent Assembly on 15^th August 1947, she sang the song Vande Mataram.

After the independence of India, she contested from New Delhi constituency in 1952 and 1957 general elections and was elected to the Lok Sabha. She served as the Minister of State for Small Scale Industries at that time. She served in the Cabinet after being elected to the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in 1962. She became the first women Chief Minister of any Indian state when she was made as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963.

She had to tackle many problems during her tenure including the strike of the state employees for 62 days. She was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1967 from the Gonda constituency of Uttar Pradesh. She retired from active politics in 1971 and died on 1^st December 1974.

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Updated: February 01, 2013