Question

The first Indian woman to preside a session of Indian National Congress was__?
 A.Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
 B.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
 C.Aruna Asaf Ali
 D.Sarojini Naidu

Answer 1

Hint:The first Indian woman to preside a session of INC was the first Indian lady to become the president of INC after Annie Basant. She presided the 40th session of congress gathered at Cawnpore (modern day Kanpur) in 1925 . She was also the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state when she took charge in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. She was also a great poetess who was known as the ‘Nightingale of India’ whose style of writing in romanticism was well liked by people in India and Europe.

Complete answer:
 The first woman president of Indian National Congress to have presided in a session is Sarojini Naidu. She joined the Indian National Movement during the Bengal partition of 1905 . Her continuous interactions with the pioneers of Indian Independence like Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi convinced her to choose a path surrounding the ideologies of INC. Between 1915 and 1918 , she delivered lectures on social welfare, women's empowerment and nationalism in various parts of the country. She was one of the pioneers who helped in the establishment of the Women's Indian Association in 1917 .
Sarojini Naidu became the President of the Indian National Congress Party in 1925 and became the first ever woman to be selected for that position. She was later appointed as the governor of Uttar Pradesh after independence. She was India’s first woman governor and remained in that position till her death in 1949 .

Hence, the correct answer is option (D).

Note:Sarojini Naidu was born on 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad. She finished her graduation from the University of Madras and finished her higher studies from King's College London and Girton College, Cambridge. In 1979 , she was appointed the Indian representative to the UN Human Rights Commission, after which she retired from public life. Her writings include The Evolution of India ( 1958 ) and The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir ( 1979 ).