Sucheta Kripalani (née Majumdar) (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃut͡ʃeta];[2] 25 June 1908[3] – 1 December 1974[4][5]) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician.

[citation needed] This was a time when the country’s atmosphere was charged with nationalist sentiments and the freedom struggle was gaining momentum.

[citation needed] Sucheta recounts how, as a 10-year-old, she and her siblings had heard their father and his friends talk about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

[9] Like her contemporaries Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha Mehta, she came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement and was arrested by British.

She was elected as the first woman CM of state of Uttar Pradesh from the Kanpur constituency and was part of the subcommittee that drafted the Indian Constitution.

[citation needed] On 14 August 1947, she sang Vande Mataram in the Independence Session of the Constituent Assembly a few minutes before Nehru delivered his famous "Tryst with Destiny" speech.

For the first Lok Sabha elections in 1952, she contested from New Delhi on a KMPP ticket: she had joined the short-lived party founded by her husband the year before.