First Kher ministry (Bombay Presidency)

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First Kher ministry
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Government of Bombay Presidency
Date formed19 July 1937
Date dissolved1939
People and organisations
Governor Robert Duncan Bell (1937)
The Earl of Scarbrough (1937-39)
Prime Minister B. G. Kher
Total no. of members7 Cabinet ministers (Incl. Chief Minister)
6 Parliamentary secretaries
Member parties Congress
Opposition party AIML
Opposition leader Ali Muhammad Khan Dehlavi
History
Election(s) 1937
Legislature term(s)5 years
Predecessor Cooper
Successor Kher II (1946)

B. G. Kher became the Prime Minister [1] of the Bombay Presidency for the first time on 19 July 1937. [2] The 7-member government resigned in November 1939 to protest the inclusion of British India in the Second World War. [3]

Contents

List of ministers

The first Kher ministry consisted of the following: [4]

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficeParty
Prime Minister
Education
19 July 19371939  INC
Finance19 July 19371939  INC
Home and Legal19 July 19371939  INC
Health and Excise
M. D. Gilder
19 July 19371939  INC
Revenue, Rural Development,
and Agriculture
19 July 19371939  INC
Public Works
M. Y. Nuri
19 July 19371939  INC
Local Self-government and Miscellaneous
L. M. Patel
19 July 19371939  INC

Parliamentary Secretaries

The ministry additionally included six parliamentary secretaries. [2]

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