#Aruna asaf ali code
She introduced the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill, 1957 (Bill No. She made important contributions to the passage of Special Marriage Act, the Nationalization of Banks, Abolition of Privy Purses and the Aligarh University Amendment Act. In the 1962 election, she defeated Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was the sitting MP from Balrampur. In an interview given in 1987, she recalled how it was decided that she should stand for the election from Karnal. She became the first woman MP from the state of Punjab when she got elected from Karnal (then in Punjab). She won Lok Sabha election from Chandani Chowk in Delhi in 1971 but lost from the same seat in 1977 to Sikandar Bakht. After defeating Atal Behari Vajpayee in Balrampur in 1962, she then lost 1967 Lok Sabha election to him from the same seat. She was a parliamentarian for four terms from 1952 to 1977 - from Karnal ( Haryana) in 1952, Ambala (Haryana) in 1957, Balrampur ( Uttar Pradesh) in 1962 and from the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency in 1971. In 1971, the Qaumi Ekta Trust was established to further the cause of secularism and communal amity in the country. The following year she set up the 'Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee' as a common anti-communal political platform and in 1968, launched the journal Secular Democracy in support of the cause. She spent several months in Sagar when the first major post independence riots of India broke out there in 1961. Subhadra Joshi was an ardent secularist who dedicated her life to the cause of communal harmony in India. In a 1998 interview with Sagari Chhabra, Joshi talked about her work trying to maintain communal harmony during the Partition. She was also very close to Rafi Ahmad Kidwai and recalled his role in encouraging her in politics in an interview she gave in December 1987. Anis Kidwai in her book, "In Freedom's Shade", mentions many instances when she and Subhadra Joshi would rush to different villages around Delhi to try and stop the forced evacuation of Muslims and maintain peace. She also organized rehabilitation of evacuees from Pakistan. She was arrested and after serving time at the Lahore Women's Central Jail, she started working among industrial workers.ĭuring the communal riots that ensued in the wake of Partition she helped set up a peace volunteer organization,‘Shanti Dal’ which became a powerful anti-communal force during those troubled times. During this time, she relocated to Delhi where she went underground and edited a journal ‘Hamara Sangram’.
As a student she took part in the Quit India Movement in 1942 and worked with Aruna Asaf Ali. Career Role in the freedom struggle Īttracted by the ideals of Gandhiji, she visited his Ashram at Wardha when she was studying in Lahore. Her father V.N Datta was a police officer with the Jaipur State and a cousin, Krishnan Gopal Datta was an active Congressman in Punjab. She obtained a master's degree in Political Science from the Forman Christian College, Lahore. She attended the Maharaja Girls' School, Jaipur, the Lady Maclegan High School, Lahore and the Kanya Mahavidyalaya at Jalandhar.
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