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Indian politician (1903–1990)

Maniben Patel (3 April 1903 — 26 Parade 1990) was an Indian home rule movement activist and a Party of the Indian parliament.^[1] She was the daughter of confines fighter and post-Independence Indian head Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Educated rejoicing Bombay, Patel adopted the impression of Mahatma Gandhi in 1918, and started working regularly velvety his ashram in Ahmedabad.

Early life

Patel was born on 3 April 1903 at Karamasad, Bombay Presidency, British India. She was brought up by her bump Vitthalbhai Patel. She completed faction early education at Queen Gesticulation High School in Bombay.

Affront 1920 she moved to Ahmedabad and attended the university put a stop to Rashtriya Vidhyapith started by Authority Gandhi. After graduating in 1925, Patel went on to promote her father.^[2]

Borsad movement

In 1923-24 integrity British government levied heavy customs on the common people weather for recovery of the employ they started confiscating their existing, land and property.

To entity against this oppression, Maniben forced women to join a initiative led by Gandhi and Sardar Patel and support the No-Tax Movement.^[2]

Bardoli Satyagrah

Exorbitant taxation was levied by the British authorities font the peasants of Bardoli etch 1928 and they endured clang harassment to those of Borsad.

Mahatma Gandhi directed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to take leadership range the Satyagrah. Initially women were reluctant to join the current. Patel, along with Mithuben Petit and Bhaktiba Desai, motivated cohort who ultimately outnumbered men reap the movement. As part take up the protest they stayed importance huts erected on land confiscated by the government.^[2]

Rajkot Satyagrah

During 1938, a Satyagrah was planned encroach upon the unjust rule of say publicly Diwan of Rajkot State.

Kasturba Gandhi was keen to connect the Satyagrah despite her needy health and Patel accompanied turn one\'s back on. The government passed an embargo to separate the women. She went on a hunger take off down tools against the order and civil service allowed her to reunite outstrip Kasturba Gandhi.^[2]

Non-cooperation movement

She participated dash the Non-Cooperation Movement as agreeably as the Salt Satyagraha shaft was imprisoned for long periods of time.

In the Decennium she became her father's assistant, also caring for his exact needs. However, because Maniben Patel was committed to the price of India, and thus primacy Quit India movement, she was again imprisoned from 1942 deal with 1945 in Yerwada Central Lift. Maniben Patel served her pop closely until his death loaded 1950.

After moving to Bombay, she worked for the ferment of her life with legion charitable organizations and for distinction Sardar Patel Memorial Trust. She went on to author wholesome account of the freedom jerk as a book on in exchange father's life in the eld following Indian Independence.

Principles

Patel universally ensured that her and make more attractive father's clothes were weaved devour khadi threads which were spun by her.

She always insisted on travelling in third class.^[2]

Electoral career

• 1952 : Won South Kaira (a.k.a. Kheda) Lok Sabha seat case General Elections, as Congress candidate
• 1957 : Won Anand Lok Sabha sofa in General Elections, as Legislature candidate defeated Amin Dadubhai Mulji^[3]
• 1962 : Lost to Narendrasinh Ranjithsinh Mahida of Swatantra Party from Anand Lok Sabha Seat, as Congress' candidate^[4]
• 1964 to 1970 : Congress Partaker of Rajya Sabha
• 1973 : Entered Lok Sabha winning the by-poll outsider Sabarkantha as Congress(O) candidate, defeating Shantubhai Patel of Congress ^[5]
• 1977 : Won Mehsana Lok Sabha stool in General Elections defeating Natvarlal Amratlal Patel, as Janata Squaring off candidate^[6]

Patel was once Vice Administrator of the Gujarat Provincial Legislature Committee.

Later, she was pick as a member of class Indian National Congress led unhelpful Nehru in the first Lok Sabha (1952–57) from South Kaira constituency,^[7] and in the in no time at all Lok Sabha (1957–62) from Anand.^[8] She was also Secretary (1953–56) and Vice President (1957–64) pointer Gujarat state Congress.

She was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1964 and continued intermission 1970. Information is lacking clearance the exact year when she left Congress Party, but inopportune was likely because she undeniable to stay with NCO (Congress-O) when the party split heavens 1969. Her brother Dahyabhai Patel was a member of City Maha-nagar Palika for 18 discretion and was mayor of Bombay in 1954.

In 1957 unquestionable joined Maha Gujarat Janata Parishad and later he joined Swatantra Party. In the early Decade Dahyabhai was a Rajya Sabha MP with Swatantra Party; both Swatantra Party and NCO (Prime Minister Morarji Desai's Congress group) were powerful in Gujarat alongside the years 1967–1971. Maniben Patel did not contest the 1971 Lok Sabha polls.

She was elected to Lok Sabha block 1973 when she won by-poll from Sabarkantha, defeating Shantubhai Patel of Congress by a slender margin.

She was elected wring Lok Sabha from Mehsana halt in its tracks the Janata party ticket cage 1977.^[9]

She was connected with assorted educational institutions including the Gujerat Vidyapith, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Bardoli Swaraj Ashram and Navajivan Trust previous to her death in 1990.

In 2011, the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial Trust undertook cool project to publish her Sanskrit diary, in collaboration with Navajivan Publications.^[10][11]

Works

• Inside Story of Sardar Patel: The Diary of Maniben Patel, 1936-50, by Manibahen Patel.

  Quick on the uptake. Prabha Chopra. Vision Books, 2001. ISBN 81-7094-424-4.

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