title: First Kher ministry (Bombay Presidency)
text: # First Kher ministry (Bombay Presidency)
  
  B. G. Kher became the Prime Minister of the Bombay Presidency for the first time on 19 July 1937. The 7-member government resigned in November 1939 to protest the inclusion of British India in the Second World War.
  
  ## List of ministers
  
  The first Kher ministry consisted of the following:
  
  | Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Prime Minister Education | B. G. Kher | 19 July 1937 | 1939 | INC |
  | Finance | A. B. Latthe | 19 July 1937 | 1939 | INC |
  | Home and Legal | K. M. Munshi | 19 July 1937 | 1939 | INC |
  | Health and Excise | M. D. Gilder | 19 July 1937 | 1939 | INC |
  | Revenue, Rural Development, and Agriculture | Morarji Desai | 19 July 1937 | 1939 | INC |
  | Public Works | M. Y. Nuri | 19 July 1937 | 1939 | INC |
  | Local Self-government and Miscellaneous | L. M. Patel | 19 July 1937 | 1939 | INC |
  
  ### Parliamentary Secretaries
  
  The ministry additionally included six parliamentary secretaries.
  
  * Gulzarilal Nanda
  * B. M. Gupte
  * Hansa Mehta
  * M. P. Patil
  * T. R. Nesvi
  * B. S. Hiray
  