Subhashini Ali

Subhasini Ali is an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She is the President of the All India Democratic Women's Association.

Family

Subhashini Ali is the daughter of Colonel Prem Sehgal and Captain Lakshmi Sehgal who were a part of the Indian National Army. She attended Welham Girls High School. She was formerly married to filmmaker Muzaffar Ali. Her son is Shaad Ali, the up-and-coming film maker who has directed popular hits such as Saathiya, Bunty aur Babli and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. Ali is an atheist.

Political career

As a trade Unionist and leader of the All India Democratic Women's Association, she was once very influential in the politics of Kanpur. In the General elections of 1989, she had defeated her nearest rival BJP candidate Capt. Jagatvir Singh Drona by 56,587 votes from Kanpur. In the General elections of 1996, she finished as the runners-up from Kanpur to Capt. Jagatvir Singh Drona who had won by a majority of 1,51,090 votes. However, in the General elections of 2004, she had finished at the 5th place behind INC, BJP, SP, BSP candidates polling only 4,558 votes (0.74%) as Sriprakash Jaiswal, the then MP won by 5,638 votes.

She is currently a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

In 2015 she was inducted to the polit bureau (PB) of Communist Party of India (Marxist) thereby becoming the 2nd women member in PB after Brinda Karat.

In General elections of 2014, she has been made a candidate from Barrackpore.

Films

Subhashini Ali designed period costumes for 1981 classic, Umrao Jaan, directed by Muzaffar Ali. She also dabbles in amateur acting, and her first starring role was in Asoka in 2001, followed by an English feature, The Guru, in 2002, and was seen again in 2005, alongside her fellow party member, Brinda Karat in the film Amu. She inspired the film Anjuman (1986) directed by Muzaffar Ali with her struggles in Kanpur with the AIDWA.

See also

Swaminathan family

External links

• A life in Service, an article by Subhashini Ali on her family history and her mother

• LAXMI SEHGAL:THE DOCTOR WHO SOLDIERS ON the-south-Asian,October 2001.
• "There are religions that have very rigid rules and there are others that don't. Religion is something that I, as a person, am not interested in. I have always been an atheist. My parents were atheists. It doesn't bother me if somebody is religious. My problem is when religion is used to institutionalise other things."The Rediff Interview/ Subhasini Ali, 8 August 2001 (accessed 21 April 2008).
• Subhashini Ali at the Internet Movie Database