Mrinal Gore

Mrinal Gore was elected Corporator to the Mumbai Municipal Corporation in 1961. She was popularly known as "Paniwali Bai" in Mumbai for her efforts to facilitate the supply of drinking water to thousands of people in her constituency of Goregaon during her tenure as corporator. Her political orientation started after coming in contact with Rashtrya Seva Dal which was the cultural wing of the Socialist Party. She was active in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement as well as the Goa Liberation movement.

She spearheaded the anti-price rise agitation along with Ahilya Rangnekar and others in the year 1972 using the rolling pin as a symbol of women power and protest, the same year she fought the state assembly elections and got elected as a MLA. She was the president of the Mahagai Pratikar Samyutka Samiti-The Anti-Price Rise Women's United Front that was formed on 13th September 1972 and spearheaded many of the anti-price rise campaigns in the city of Bombay.

During the emergency she was arrested in December 1975 and was detained under MISA In the elections held after the emergency was lifted, she got elected as a Member of Parliament with the slogan Paaniwali bai Dilli mein, Dilliwali bai paani mein.

She became the first woman leader of opposition in the Maharashtra State Assembly