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Veteran socialist leader Mrinal Gore dead
Tuesday July 17, 2012 09:00:05 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Veteran
socialist leader Mrinal Gore, popularly known as "Paaniwali Bai",
died of old age problems Tuesday in a hospital in Maharashtra's
Thane district, family sources said. She was 84.
Considered the last of Maharashtra's socialist pillars, Gore came
to be known as "Paaniwali Bai" after she stormed inside the Mumbai
civic headquarters and tore up papers as municipal laws did not
permit water connections to slums.
She contested the civic elections in 1961 for the first time and
won a seat in the then Bombay Municipal Council. Gore took up the
issue of water connections in slums in 1964 after 11 people were
killed in water riots.
Gore contested the 1977 Lok Sabha general elections, held after
the then prime minister Indira Gandhi revoked Emergency, on a
Janata Party ticket. Owing to her catchy slogan "Paaniwali bai
Delhi mein, Delhiwali bai paani mein", she won with the highest
victory margin in Maharashtra.
However, when Gandhi bounced back in 1980, the tables were turned
as Gore lost with a heavy margin.
Gore, however, continued to serve in the state legislature and
council for several terms.
Expressing his condolences, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj
Chavan said Gore will be accorded a full state funeral in Mumbai
Wednesday.
Governor K. Sankaranarayanan also expressed grief over Gore's
death.
"Mrinal Gore was one of the greatest woman social workers who
until her death fought for the rights of the poor and the
underprivileged sections of society. Along with the late Comrade
Ahilya Rangnekar and others, Mrinal Gore remained in the forefront
of various agitations for almost four decades and secured justice
for women and the urban poor," he said.
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