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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Facts about Jawaharlal Nehru's younger sister

Updated On: 18 August, 2019 09:29 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent

On Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit's birth anniversary, here are some lesser-known facts about her

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Indira Gandhi And Vijay Laxmi Pandit in Funeral of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Pic/Twitter/indianhistorypics

Indira Gandhi And Vijay Laxmi Pandit in Funeral of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Pic/Twitter/indianhistorypics

In the year 1937 to 1939, when India was struggling for its independence, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Jawaharlal Nehru's younger sister contributed to the freedom struggle by becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet position of local self-government and public health in pre-independent India. According to India Today, she is a freedom fighter, politician and a diplomat, who was born on August 18 day.

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