(Nuh News) No. Padma Vibhushan Cantonment Lakshmi Sehgal, the first captain of the women’s unit of Azad Hind Fauj, was remembered here on the occasion of her birth anniversary. During a program organized under the leadership of the organization’s national president Pradhan Surendra Singh, courtesy of Akhil Bharatiya Jansevak Samaj (registered), a leading social organization of the region, at the Kirti Stambh built in memory of Azad Hind Fauj fighters . Tributes were paid with garlands on the premises of Government Higher Secondary Model Sanskrit School, Prangan Tawadu.
District President Kale Khan said that this country will always remember him as a freedom fighter, doctor, parliamentarian and social worker. Captain Dr. Lakshmi Sehgal was born on October 24, 1914 in a traditional Tamil family. His father was the lawyer Dr. Swaminathan and his mother was the social worker and freedom fighter. Captain Sehgal passed his science graduation exam in 1932.
He studied medicine at Madras Medical College and then went to Singapore. During World War II, when the Japanese army attacked British forces in Singapore, Lakshmi Sehgal joined Subhash Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj. She was influenced by the nationalist movement since childhood and when Mahatma Gandhi encouraged foreign products, Lakshmi Sehgal participated in it. boycott movement when it started. He completed MBBS from Madras Medical College in 1938. He also obtained a Diploma in Gynecology and Obstetrics from the same college in 1940 and joined Kasturba Gandhi Government Hospital, Madras.
She became the first woman cabinet member of the Azad Hind provisional government in 1943. Lakshmi Sehgal was very active in the Rani Jhansi Regiment of the Azad Hind Fauj. She was later given the rank of colonel, but people only remembered her as Captain Lakshmi. After the defeat of Azad Hind Fauj, the British forces arrested the freedom fighters and she was captured on March 4, 1946, but was later released. Lakshmi Sehgal married Colonel Prem Kumar Sehgal in 1947 and settled in Kanpur.
But his fight did not end and he began to serve the most disadvantaged. She could never accept the partition of India and always opposed the growing gap between rich and poor. It is an irony that the Left parties that criticized Subhash Chandra Bose for supporting Japan in World War II, he was the one who appointed Lakshmi Sehgal. the candidate for president of India. But Lakshmi Sehgal’s inclination towards leftist politics began to increase after 1971. She is one of the founding members of the All India Janavadi Mahila Samiti. He died on July 23, 2012. We should be inspired by his life.
District general secretary Vedprakash, members Pankaj, Sumit, Anil and Sunil Kumar etc. were also present on this occasion.
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