Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar

Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (died 27 February 1956) popularly known as "Dadasaheb" was an independence activist and the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.

Mavalankar hailed from Marathi background but lived and worked in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat. He was a colleague and close friend of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Mavalankar joined the Indian Independence Movement with the Non-Cooperation Movement. Although he temporarily joined the Swaraj Party in the 1920s, he returned to Mahatma Gandhi and the Salt Satyagraha in 1930.

In 1952, after the first general elections in independent India, G.V. Mavalankar was elected the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He died in office in 1956.

External links

* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1910/19101250.htm Frontline magazine, May 2002 (reference for death date)]


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