RAS question
First woman CM of Rajasthan was:
Correct answer: (A) Vasundhara Raje.
Vasundhara Raje was the first woman Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
Explanation
Vasundhara Raje is the answer because the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Museum’s official page describes her as the first and only woman Chief Minister of the state. She held the office in two periods: 2003-2008 and 2013-2018. The MCQ is testing the first woman to occupy Rajasthan’s Chief Minister’s office, not merely a woman political leader from Rajasthan. The Assembly Museum page also identifies her as Smt. Vasundhara Raje from the Scindia family and places her in a dedicated gallery on her biography and political work, reinforcing that the official institutional reference is specifically about her chief-ministerial distinction.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Sushila Devi was not Rajasthan’s first woman Chief Minister; the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Museum page assigns that distinction to Vasundhara Raje.
- (C) Sumitra Singh may appear as a familiar Rajasthan political name, but Rajasthan’s first woman Chief Minister was Vasundhara Raje, not Sumitra Singh.
- (D) None of these is wrong because option A names Vasundhara Raje, whom the official Assembly Museum page calls the first and only woman Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan’s political leadership and constitutional office-holders, a recurring RAS area because Chief Ministers, Speakers and other institutional figures anchor the state’s post-Independence political history.