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title: "Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha?"  
description: "Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha?"  
author: "Aditya Patel"  
published: 2019-09-16  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72336/who-was-the-first-speaker-of-the-lok-sabha  
category: "general study"  
tags: ["indian law"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

Who was the first [Speaker of the Lok](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/45159/who-is-the-present-deputy-speaker-of-the-lok-sabha) Sabha?

## Answers

### Answer by Aditya Patel

Sri **Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (27 November 1888 – 27 February 1956)** popularly known as Dadasaheb 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](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62146/who-has-been-appointed-as-the-deputy-leader-of-bjp-in-the-lok-sabha), the lower house of the Parliament of India. His son Purushottam Mavalankar was later elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Gujarat.

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