694. Maulavi Liaqat Hossain, 695. Leela Roy, Nag (1900-1970)

Maulavi Liaqat Hossain was a leader of Nationalist Musims. He conducted rallies with youths with shouting Bandemataram Slogan. To go to Jail was not matter to put any importance. He conducted meetings several times defying 144 Cr PC and accepted prison life . As a result the ordinary people became unafraid of police.  He was one among those who tried for communal harmony in this century.

Leela Naag
Born	October 2, 1900 Goyalpara, Assam, British India
Died	June 11, 1970 (aged 69)[1] Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Other names	Leelaboti Roy
Ethnicity	Bengali Hindu
Organization	Deepali Sangha, Indian National Congress, Forward Bloc
Movement	Indian Independence Movement
Religion	Hinduism
Spouse(s)	Anil Chandra Roy

Leela Roy née Nag (Bengali: লীলা রায়) (21 October 1900 – 11 June 1970), was a radical leftist Indian politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Family

She was born into an upper middle class Bengali Hindu Kayastha family in Sylhet in Bengal (now in Bangladesh) and educated at the Bethune College in Calcutta, graduating with a gold medal in English. She fought with university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earned her M.A. degree.

Social work

She threw herself into social work and education for girls, starting the second girls school in Dhaka. She encouraged girls learning skills and receiving vocational training and emphasized the need for girls to learn martial arts to defend themselves. Over the years, she set up a number of schools and institutes for women.

She met Netaji Subhash Bose when he was leading the relief action after the 1921 Bengal floods, Smt. Leela Nag, then a student of the Dhaka University, was instrumental in forming the Dhaka Women's Committee and, in that capacity, raised donations and relief goods to help Netaji.

In 1931, she began publishing Jayasree, the first magazine edited, managed, and wholly contributed by women writers. It received the blessings of many eminent personalities including Rabindranath Tagore, who suggested its name.

Politics

Leela Nag formed a rebellion organization called Deepali Sangha where combat training were given. Pritilata Waddedar took courses from there. She took part in theCivil Disobedience Movement and was imprisoned for six years. In 1938, she was nominated by Congress President, Subhas Chandra Bose to the 

National

 Planning Committee of the Congress. In 1939 she married Anilchandra Roy. On Bose's resignation from the Congress, the couple joined him in the Forward Bloc.

In 1941, when there was a serious outburst of communal rioting in Dhaka, she along with Sarat Chandra Bose formed the Unity Board and 

National Service

 Brigade. In 1942, during the Quit India Movement both she and her husband were arrested and her magazine was forced to cease. On her release in 1946, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly of India.

During the partition violence, she joined Gandhi in Noakhali. Even before Gandhiji reached there, she opened a relief center and rescued 400 women after touring on foot 90 miles in just six days. After the Partition of India, she ran homes in Calcutta for destitute and abandoned women and tried to help refugees from East Bengal.

Leelay Roy & Bhagwanji/ Netaji

There are evidences that Leela Roy knew Netaji alive & was in his contact till her death. She remained a great source of help to Bhawanji/Netaji until her death in 1970. However, before she died, Leela Roy wrote to Netaji’s dearest friend Dilip Roy on September 7, 1963 (on Bhagwanji’s order): “I wanted to tell you something about your friend… he is alive – in India.”

There is a letter in which Netaji/Bhagwanji pays homage to Leela Roy, who died in 1970. Netaji used to call Leela Roy as "Lee". According to the expert Mr. B. Lal, by writing in upper case the writer tried to hide his identity, but failed. The handwriting matches with that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.