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Navnirman Agitation
In 1974, with the same gusto, she attended solidarity programmes in support of
the historic railway strike and all the
protest activities led by the students during the Navnirman agitation. When
leaders like Mrinal Gore, Ahilyatai
Rangnekar, Manjutai Gandhi, Taratai
Reddy called upon activists to start the
anti-price rise womens movement in
Vadodara, Trupti was always with me.
Whenever we were arrested, Trupti was
taken to the remand home as she was a
minor. The staff there would tell her to
use her mothers name and secure her
release. Inevitably, Trupti would vehemently refuse to do so.
During the 18 months of the Emergency (25 June 1975 to 21 March 1977),
most of the trade unions had stopped
functioning in Vadodara. The Study and
Struggle Alliance was approached by
industrial workers to take up their
issues. We formed factory-wise workers
committees to deal with issues such as
bonus, retrenchment, and wage and
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