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Who was the first woman President of India?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Pratibha Patil
Pratibha Patil was the first woman President of India, serving from 2007 to 2012. She had earlier been a member of the Maharashtra legislature, a Rajya Sabha member and Governor of Rajasthan. The distractors each hold a different first, which is what makes them plausible. Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime Minister, from 1966, an office quite distinct from the presidency. Sarojini Naidu was the first woman Governor of an Indian state, of the United Provinces in 1947, and the first Indian woman to preside over the Congress. Droupadi Murmu, elected in 2022, is the second woman President and the first from a tribal community. Other constitutional firsts for women worth knowing: Meira Kumar as the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha in 2009, and Fathima Beevi as the first woman judge of the Supreme Court in 1989.
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