Captain Lakshmi Sehgal is the flame of the fight

Lakshmi Sehgal, the great woman, sacrificed her whole life for the country, not a glorious life. On her death day on 23rd July, we remember again and again a flame of struggle.  A successful doctor became a soldier of the liberation struggle. Dr. Lakshmi Sehgal was in Singapor an gynocologist who gave up her lucrative career and chose the Azad Hind Army to become Asia's first woman army chief and became a soldier in the liberation struggle.  

Azad Hind Fauj's Rani took charge of the Jhansi Regiment (July 16, 1943), the first such women's regiment in Asia and indicative of a far-reaching vision.  In addition to this responsibility, as an officer of the Indian National Army, he was the Minister of Women's Affairs of the Azad Hind Force. Lakshmi Sehgal is known by the people of India as Captain Lakshmi.

She was given this title as a rank during his stay in Burma prison. During the Second World War, Singapore was occupied by the Japanese forces in 1942 as a result of the fall of Singapore.  During her service with the wounded prisoners of war, he found that many of them were very interested in forming the Indian Freedom Army.  As many Indian nationalist figures in Singapore.  P.  Kesva Menon, S.  C.  Guha and N.  Raghavan formed a working committee.

Lakshmi Sehgal joined the CPI(M) in 1971 and represented the party in the Rajya Sabha.  She played an outstanding role in the great freedom struggle of Bangladesh.  She played a key role in providing medical services to Bangladeshi refugees in Kolkata, including managing refugee camps.

In 1981, she was a founding member of the women's wing of Akhil Bharatiya Janavadi Mahila Samiti of CPI (M) and therefore directly participated in various party activities and campaigns.

In December 1984, the doctor led the team in the Bhopal gas accident.  In the same year, in the context of anti-Sikh riots, She did public relations in Kanpur in order to maintain peace.  In 1996, she was arrested for campaigning against the organization of the Miss World pageant held in Bangalore. Even at the age of 92, she regularly treated patients at her clinic in Kanpur until 2006.

In 2002, four left-wing parties in India - CPI, CPI(M), Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc nominated Lakshmi Shehgal as President Election.

On July 19, 2012, Captain Lakshmi Sehgal was diagnosed with heart disease.  She then died at the age of 97 on July 23, 2012 at 11:20 in Kanpur.Her body was donated to Kanpur Medical College for medical needs.

Her activities dedicated to the service of humanity and the spirit of her work is one of the outlines of the women's movement in the country today।