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Unsung women warriors of freedom struggle.
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- President Murmu pays tribute to Matangini Hazra, Kanaklata Barua, remarkable women who made indelible contributions to the movement.
- Hazra was arrested for taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 and the Salt March led by Gandhi.
- Hazra was 73 when she fell to British bullets, leading a march during the Quit India movement of 1942, in Tamluk in West Bengal.
- In 1977, the first statue in the Kolkata Maidan dedicated to a woman revolutionary was that of Matangini Hazra.
- Kanaklata Barua is of the youngest martyrs of the Quit India Movement.
- Barua, then 17, led the Mrityu Bahini, a procession of freedom fighters, to unfurl the Tricolour at Gohpur police station on September 20, 1942.
- In 2020, the Coast Guard named a Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) after her, the ICGS Kanaklata Barua.
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