Question

The late Mrs. Vijyalakshmi Pandit was the first
A)Indian to become President of the UN General Assembly.
B)Woman Cabinet Minister of a state in free India.
C)Woman Ambassador of free India to a foreign country
D)To adorn all the three above assignments.

Answer 1

Hint : Vijya Lakshami Pandit was born on 18 August 1900. She was the daughter of Motilal Nehru.The brother of Vijya Lakshami Pandit was Jawahar Lal Nehru who was the first Prime minister of India, her niece whose name was Indira Gandhi was the first women Prime minister of India and her grand-nephew whose name was Rajiv Gandhi was the sixth prime minister of India.

Complete answer :
Vijya Lakshami Pandit was an Indian diplomat.
She was the politician who was elected as the first female president of the United Nations General assembly.
 Vijya Lakshmi Pandit was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-independence India.
She became India's ambassador to the Soviet Union, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, and Spain.
 In India, Vijya Lakshami Pandit served as the Governor of Maharashtra.
Vijya Lakshmi Pandit married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit who was a fellow congress worker.
 She was an active worker in the Indian nationalist movement and was imprisoned three times by the British authorities in India.

Option D- to adorn all the three above assignments,is the correct answer for this question.

Note : In 1977, Vijya Lakshmi Pandit left the Congress Party in order to join the Congress for democracy, which had merged with the Janta Party. Vijya Lakshmi Pandit married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit who was a fellow congress worker. She was an active worker in the Indian nationalist movement and was imprisoned three times by the British authorities in India.