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Who was the first woman foreign minister of state in India?

  1. Lakshmi N Menon

  2. Padmaja Naidu

  3. Sarojini Naidu

  4. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
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Lakshmi N. Menon served as Minister of State for External Affairs from 1963-1967, making her the first woman to hold this position in independent India. She was a key diplomat during the Nehru and Shastri eras. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was India's first woman ambassador to the UN and later Governor of Maharashtra, but not the first woman foreign minister of state.

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