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Mrinal Gore, ‘Paniwali Bai’ passes at 84
Veteran socialist leader Mrinal Gore, who earned the sobriquet ‘Paniwali Bai’ for her efforts in bringing drinking water supply to Goregaon, a Mumbai suburb, passed away on Tuesday after a brief illness.
Family sources said Gore(84), a former MP, died at a hospital at Vasai in neighbouring Thane district. A pioneer and visionary, Gore was one of the last of the Socialist pillars in Mahrashtra.
Mrinaltai, as she is respectfully referred , Gore was elected to Parliament on a Janata Party ticket in 1977.
Gore belonged to that special set of women who took to politics in a period when it was virtually unthinkable for women to be involved in public work.
Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India exhortation as a youngster, Mrinal chucked a promising career in medicine to devote herself to organising the poor and the disenfranchised.
For more than half a century, she has been involved with a series of organisations and leading protests both on the streets and in the corridors of power, focusing on women’s rights, civil rights, communal harmony, and trade union activities.
Veteran socialist leader Mrinal Gore, who earned the sobriquet ‘Paniwali Bai’ for her efforts in bringing drinking water supply to Goregaon, a Mumbai suburb, passed away on Tuesday after a brief illness.
Family sources said Gore(84), a former MP, died at a hospital at Vasai in neighbouring Thane district. A pioneer and visionary, Gore was one of the last of the Socialist pillars in Mahrashtra.
Mrinaltai, as she is respectfully referred , Gore was elected to Parliament on a Janata Party ticket in 1977.
Gore belonged to that special set of women who took to politics in a period when it was virtually unthinkable for women to be involved in public work.
Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India exhortation as a youngster, Mrinal chucked a promising career in medicine to devote herself to organising the poor and the disenfranchised.
For more than half a century, she has been involved with a series of organisations and leading protests both on the streets and in the corridors of power, focusing on women’s rights, civil rights, communal harmony, and trade union activities.
