Overlooked No More: Usha Mehta, Freedom Fighter Against British Rule in India
At 22, she helped establish the underground station Congress Radio, which amplified Mahatma Gandhi’s message of rebellion.
Usha Mehta with a cutout of Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai in 1997. She gave daily radio news bulletins during Gandhi’s Quit India campaign, until she was arrested.Credit.Reuters
May 13, 2021, 4:32 p.m. ET
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
When Mahatma Gandhi gave his famous “Do or Die” speech on Aug. 8, 1942, galvanizing Indians to demand the end of British rule, Usha Mehta heeded the call.
AICC working president Sonia Gandhi. (Photo: India Today/Vikram Sharma)
The Indian Youth Congress on Tuesday wrote a letter to the All India Congress Committee, seeking a leadership change in Kerala. The letter, signed by 24 functionaries of the organization, including the state vice president, asked the PCC President and the Leader of Opposition to be changed, among others.
The IYC, Kerala, in its letter also demanded the dismissal of the Jumbo Committees of KPCC, DCC and other associated organizations after Congress defeat in the recently-concluded Kerala Legislative Assembly Elections.
Speaking to India Today, SJ Premraj, vice president of IYC, Kerala, said that the demands are not new to the party in Kerala. Everyone knows what happened in the elections and we all know the reasons for the same. It is high time the party high command step in and troubleshoot. We need to make way for the next generation which can take the party forward. Jumbo Committees, comprising hundreds
Synopsis Our country needs a helping hand in these distressing times. Let s all do our bit to save lives. Join the campaign #SpeakUpToSaveLives and strengthen our fight against Corona, Rahul said in a tweet.
The Congress has set up a control room at the All India Congress Committee headquarters and Pradesh Congress Committee offices to help people.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday urged people to provide a helping hand to the needy in these distressing times of the COVID-19 pandemic. He said this while asking them to join the SpeakUpToSaveLives campaign to strengthen the fight against coronavirus.
He also shared an over one-minute video showing shortage of oxygen, ventilators, ICU beds and vaccines and people scrambling to get them.
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Covid situation in the country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he should remove his rose tinted glasses through which he can see nothing but the Central Vista project. The Congress has been demanding that the project, including a new Parliament building and a new residence for the prime minister, be dropped and the money be used on improving medical facilities and infrastructure in the country. Countless dead bodies flowing in the rivers. Miles of lines in hospitals. Robbed people of their right to life. PM, take off those rose tinted glasses through which nothing is seen except the Central Vista, Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
Rahul attacks PM on Covid situation
Rahul attacks PM on Covid situation
NEW DELHI, May 11: Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Covid situation in the country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he should remove his rose tinted glasses through which he can see nothing but the Central Vista project.
The Congress has been demanding that the project, including a new Parliament building and a new residence for the prime minister, be dropped and the money be used on improving medical facilities and infrastructure in the country.
“Countless dead bodies flowing in the rivers. Miles of lines in hospitals. Robbed people of their right to life. PM, take off those rose tinted glasses through which nothing is seen except the Central Vista,” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.