Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar's Birth Anniversary


Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, born on 27 November 1888, was an independence activist, the President (from 1946 to 1947) of the Central Legislative Assembly, then Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of India, and later the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. His son Purushottam Mavalankar was later elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Gujarat.

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