Which freedom fighter from Haryana is known as ‘Haryana ki Jhansi ki Rani’?

Bhagwati Devi
Kalpana Chawla
Savitri Jindal
Sushma Swaraj

The correct answer is Bhagwati Devi.

Bhagwati Devi was a freedom fighter from Haryana who is known as ‘Haryana ki Jhansi ki Rani’. She was born in 1905 in the village of Jhajjar, Haryana. She was married at the age of 12 and had two children. She started her fight for freedom in 1930 when she joined the Indian National Congress. She was arrested several times for her participation in the freedom struggle. She was also a member of the All India Women’s Conference. She died in 1995 at the age of 90.

Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut who was the first woman of Indian origin to go into space. She was born in Karnal, Haryana in 1962. She moved to the United States in 1982 to pursue a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was selected by NASA in 1994 and flew her first space mission in 1997. She died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.

Savitri Jindal was an Indian businesswoman who was the chairperson of the Jindal Group. She was born in Hisar, Haryana in 1932. She married Om Prakash Jindal in 1950 and they had five children. She took over the management of the Jindal Group after her husband’s death in 2005. She died in 2017 at the age of 84.

Sushma Swaraj was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India from 2014 to 2019. She was born in Ambala, Haryana in 1952. She was married to Swaraj Kaushal in 1975 and they had two daughters. She was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as the Chief Minister of Delhi from 1998 to 2001. She died in 2019 at the age of 67.