MPPSC 2010 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(B) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar 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.Mavlankar was elected to the Bombay Province Legislative Assembly and became its Speaker in 1937. Mavalankar remained Speaker of the Bombay Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1946.