Two years after her marriage, she went to jail during the Salt Satyagraha. Unsurprisingly, Aruna was soon at the forefront of the freedom struggle. Interestingly, Asaf Ali was the lawyer who defended Batukeshwar Dutt and Bhagat Singh in the Lahore Conspiracy Case (Bhagat Singh also fought his own case with the help of a legal adviser). In fact, their wedding was attended by prominent nationalist leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, C. ”Īs Asaf Ali was a prominent member of the Indian National Congress (INC), this marriage brought his fiery young bride in touch with the political elite of the day. ![]() ![]() ![]() My paternal uncle Nagendranath Ganguly, a university professor who regarded himself as my guardian, said to relatives and friends that as far as he was concerned I was dead and he had performed my shraddh. In one of her numerous biographies, Aruna would later write, “My father was no more when Asaf and I married in September 1928. In 1928, 19-year-old Aruna married him in Allahabad despite parental opposition on grounds of religion and age (he was a Muslim and her senior by 23 years).
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