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Women in Local Bodies in U.P. in 1991–92. In her struggles to fight the injustices against women, she was jailed in 2009 for protesting against increased incidents of rape on women in U.P. Her efforts to relieve the plight of women in U.P. got her awarded the U.N. Award of
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