Bengal and Tamil
Nadu respectively, India could for the first time boast of four women
Chief Ministers. Shiela
Dikshit of Delhi has the distinction of the longest serving woman Chief
Minister in post-
independent India, has been serving for the past 12 years.
BSP supremo Mayawati has singlehandedly secured power in the largest
state of Uttar
Pradesh in 2007 elections and her victory at that time was seen as a
defining moment in
Indian politics.
Sucheta Kripalani of the Congress was the first woman Chief Minister of
independent India
having been at the helm of affairs in Uttar Pradesh (1963-67).
Vasundhara Raje of BJP became the first woman Chief Minister of
Rajasthan (2003 -2008)
Nandini Satpathy of the Congress was the Chief Minister of Orissa
(1972-74, 1974-76).
Shashikala Kakodkar of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party was Chief
Minister of the
then Union territory of Goa for most part of the seventies.
Syeed Anwara Taimur of Congress ruled seven months (1980-81) as Cheif
Mnister of Assam.
The tenure of the late Janaki Ramachandran, wife of the Late M G
Ramachandran, was the
shortest. She was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for less than a month in
1988.
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal of the Congress was the Punjab Chief Minister for
a year in the mid-
nineties while Uma Bharati had also a short tenure in Madhya Pradesh
after leading the BJP
in the Assembly elections of 2003.
Sushma Swaraj was Delhi Chief Minister for four months and Rabri Devi
(W/o Lalu Prasad
Yadav) of Bihar is Chief Minister for three times.
Recent years have in fact proved a boon to women leaders in India
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