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Governance

    President of the Indian National Congress : Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, 1885
    President of the Indian National Congress of independent India : Acharya Kripalani, till Nov 1947
    President : Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
    First Woman President: Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
    First Bengali President :Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
    First President of India from West Bengal :Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
    The first Chief Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen
    Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
    The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet : Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
    Vice-President : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected.
    Deputy Prime Minister : Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)
    Law Minister of India : B. R. Ambedkar
    Leader of Opposition : A. K. Gopalan
    Prime Minister to be voted out of office : Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
    Non-Congress government : Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)
    Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party : E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
    Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years) : P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
    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
    Prime Minister from South India : P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991
    Women Railway Minister of India : Mamata Banerjee
    The first Viceroy of India : Lord Canning, 1858
    Governor-General of India : Warren Hastings, 1773
    Governor-General of Independent India : Lord Mountbatten, 1947
    Indian Governor-General of Indian Union : C Rajagopalachari, 1948
    Chief Justice of India : H. J. Kania (1947–1951)
    First Sikh Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh (2004–present)
    First Muslim President : Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
    First Sikh President : Giani Zail Singh
    First Chief Minister of West Bengal :Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
    Indian ICS Officer : Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
    Speaker of Lok Sabha : G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956)
    Finance Minister of Independent India : R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet
    Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence : R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947
    First Home Minister of India : Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
    First Indian President to die in Office: Dr Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
    First Chief Minister to die in Office : C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
    First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office : Morarji Desai, 1979
    First Woman Cabinet Minister in India : Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
    First Woman Minister in India : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
    First Woman Chief Minister : Sucheta Kriplani
    First Woman Chief Minister of West Bengal : Mamata Banerjee(2011-present)
    First Female Home Minister : Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt..
    First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha : Meira Kumar
    First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India : Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.