Indian Independence Movement

Aga Khan III was a founding member and the first president of the All-India Muslim League. He was elected as the permanent president of the organization in 1908.

Majnun Shah was the leader of the Fakir-Sannyasi rebellion in Bengal during the late 18th century.

The Muslim League was formed in 1906, and Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk and Salimullah Khan were instrumental; Salimullah Khan was the first President.

C. Rajagopalachari was a prominent Congress leader who opposed the Quit India Movement, believing it would be detrimental to India's interests during the ongoing World War II.

Hasrat Mohani was a prominent freedom fighter and poet who was known for his insistence on using Urdu and his refusal to speak in English during the proceedings of the Constituent Assembly.

Allan Octavian Hume, a retired British civil servant, played a key role in the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885.

Dadabhai Naoroji is widely known as the 'Grand Old Man of India' for his pioneering work in economics and his role in the Indian National Congress.

Jawaharlal Nehru was a strong proponent of the Cabinet Mission Plan, as he believed it offered a viable framework for a united India with a strong center, despite the concerns of other leaders.

Surendranath Banerjee left the Indian National Congress in 1918 over the issue of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms and formed the Indian Liberal Federation.

Mahatma Gandhi presided over the Indian National Congress only once, at the Belgaum session in 1924.

L.K. Advani served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) immediately before Rajnath Singh took over the position in 2006.

Professor N.R. Madhava Menon, a renowned legal educator, headed the committee that drafted the Equal Opportunity Commission report.

The First Lok Sabha was constituted on April 17, 1952 after India's first general election. Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, fondly remembered as Dadasaheb Mavalankar, on whom the title 'Father of the Lok Sabha' was conferred by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the Speaker of the First Lok Sabha of a new born nation. Mavalankar's role was not merely that of a moderator and facilitator of its proceedings, but of a statesman and a founding father invested with the responsibility to establish rules, procedures, conventions and customs that suited the ethos of the land.

Picked for the presidency by the Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in 1974, and on 20 August 1974, he became the second Muslim to be elected President. He is known to have issued the proclamation of emergency.

The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha was Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (in office 15 May 1952 – 13 January 1956).