Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was born on 27 November 1888 in Vadodara, Gujarat. He was from a Marathi family.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, the first Lok Sabha Speaker of Azad India, died on 27 February 1956 (age 67) in Ahmedabad, Bombay State, India.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar's family originally belonged to Mavalange of Sangameshwar in Ratnagiri district of Bombay Presidency in British India. After his early education at Rajapur and other places in the Bombay Presidency, Mavalankar moved to Ahmedabad in 1902 for higher studies. He earned his B.A. Degree in Science from Gujarat College, Ahmedabad in 1909. He was a Dakshina Fellow of the college for a year in 1909 before starting his law studies at Government Law School, Bombay. He passed the law examination in first class in 1912 and entered the legal profession in 1913. He came in contact with eminent leaders like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Mahatma Gandhi. He became Honorary Secretary of Gujarat Education Society in 1913 and Secretary of Gujarat Sabha in 1916.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar joined the Indian independence movement with the non-cooperation movement. At the time of non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhiji, he left the practice in 1922. He was appointed Secretary of Gujarat Provincial Congress Committee during 1921-22. Although he temporarily joined the Swaraj Party in the 1920s, he returned to Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha in 1930. After the boycott of pre-independence Legislative Council elections by the Congress in 1934, Mavanankar was elected to the Bombay Province Legislative Assembly and became its member. In 1937, he was elected a member of the Mumbai Legislative Assembly and its Speaker. Mavalankar was the Speaker of the Bombay Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1946. In 1946, he was also elected to the Central Legislative Assembly.

Vasudev Mavalankar remained the Speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly from midnight of 14–15 August 1947, in 1946, he was elected the Speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly. When, under the Indian Independence Act 1947, the Central Legislative Assembly and the Council of States ceased to exist and the Constituent Assembly of India assumed full authority for governance. Of India. Just after independence, Mavalankar formed the Constitution Committee on 20 August 1947, which studied and reported on the need to separate the Constituent Assembly's constitution-making role from its legislative role. He was Honorary Secretary of Gujarat Education Society in 1913 and also Secretary of Gujarat Sabha in 1916. Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was one of the prominent members of the Constituent Assembly. On 5 May 1952, after the first general elections in independent India, Mavalankar, who was representing Ahmedabad for the Congress, was elected the Speaker of the first Lok Sabha. The House proposed with 394 votes against the opponent's 55. In January 1956, Mavalankar suffered a heart attack and resigned from his office.