may 4, 1930 - Gandhi & Kamaladevi CHatopadhyay arrested for Salt March May, 1930

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Also Kamala Devi Chatopadhyay got arrested while trying to enter into the Bombay Stock Exchange to sell the “Freedom Salt.
She was the first lady freedom fighter to get arrested and imprisioned.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was a freedom fighter, social reformer and was the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms and theatre in post-independence India.
In Seva Dal, she was in charge of the women’s wing and recruited, trained and organized the Sevikas.
In 1927, she led the All India Women’s Conference, which was earlier founded by Margaret E. Cousins, and her efforts made it a national organization of repute.
During the Salt Satyagraha, she was a member of a seven-member lead team created by Mahatma Gandhi to prepare salt at the Bombay beachfront.
She persuaded Gandhiji not to restrict the salt agitation to men alone.
She not only prepared salt but also went to High Court nearby and offered the judge to buy this “freedom salt”.
While trying to enter into the Bombay Stock Exchange to sell the “Freedom Salt”, she was arrested and spent a year in prison. Thus, she was the first woman to be arrested in the freedom struggle.
In 1936, she became president of the Congress Socialist Party.

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