However, when its leader B. G. Kher refused to form a government, Governor Lord Brabourne instead invited Dhanjishah Cooper, an independent member from Satara, to be the Presidency's prime minister on 1 April 1937. Cooper accepted and thus, became's Bombay's first prime minister.

[3] After Congress' B. G. Kher refused his mandate, the Governor invited the second-largest Muslim League.

Citing that the League would be unable to maintain a stable majority, Ali Muhammad Khan Dehlavi refused office as well.

[4] In May 1937, Jamnadas Mehta of Democratic Swaraj Party joined the Cooper ministry on the condition of the unconditional release of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar from detention.

[5] Freeing Savarkar from all restrictions was a significant action by the short-lived Cooper ministry.