The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". On August 1942 when all senior leaders including her husband were arrested and sent to Ahmednagar Fort, she hoisted the congress tri-colour at the Gowalia tank and went underground for three years to direct the movement from. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Aruna Asaf Ali Heroine of Quit India Movement The Quit India movement was the high point of her political career. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942.
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. In 1928, he married Aruna Asaf Ali, a marriage that raised eyebrows on the grounds of religion (Asaf Ali was a Muslim while Aruna was a Hindu) and age difference (Aruna was 20 years junior to him). The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Associated with numerous women organisations she was against giving reservation to women in jobs and law making bodies as she saw it as a badge of weakness and backwardness. She bemoaned the “lopsided” development of the country after independence. She was awarded the 1964 International Lenin Prize “for the promotion of peace among nations” and the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 1991.
In May 1964, she rejoined the Congress Party. As mayor, she was instrumental in bringing about some major reforms in the civic administration, but soon got disillusioned with the bureaucracy and the government and left the post after 14 months. She was elected the first Mayor of Delhi in 1958-the only woman mayor the city has ever had. In 1950 she joined the Communist Party for a permanent revolution of her own fashioning, only to leave the party two years later. In 1947, she was elected President of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee. In 1942, she hoisted the tricolour at Mumbai’s Gowalia Tank Grounds (now called August Kranti Maidan), after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s arrest. Aruna went to prison during the 19 Civil Disobedience Movements, and in 1940 in connection with Gandhiji’s call for Individual Satyagraha. At the age of 19, breaking age old social conventions she married Asaf Ali, a leading Delhi Congressman in 1928 who was to become India’s first Ambassador to the USA and later Governor of Orissa. Born on July 16, 1909, as Aruna Ganguli at Kalka in undivided Punjab, her family had a distinguished Brahmo lineage related to the family of Rabindranath Tagore.
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