Full Name Purnima Ganguly Died 1951, Nainital Nationality Indian Residence Allahabad | Ethnicity Bengali Name Purnima Banerjee Siblings Aruna Asaf Ali | |
Occupation Indian independence activist, member of the Constituent Assembly of India Relatives Aruna Asaf Ali (sister)Dhirendranath Ganguly (uncle)Trailokyanath Sanyal (grand-father) | ||
Political party Indian National Congress Similar P Kakkan, Feroze Gandhi, Ranbir Singh Hooda | ||
Purnima Banerjee (née Ganguly, 1911-1951) was an Indian freedom fighter.
Secretary of the Indian National Congress committee in Allahabad, she took part in the Salt March and the Quit India Movement and was subsequently imprisoned. Later, she became a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and of the Constituent Assembly of India.
She was Aruna Asaf Ali's younger sister. Suffering from ill-health, she died prematurely in Nainital a few years after the independence.
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