Ahilya Rangnekar

Ahilya Rangnekar (8 July 1922– 19 April 2009) was an Indian politician, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and, from 1977 to 1980, the Mumbai North Central representative in the Lok Sabha parliament.

Ahilya Rangnekar joined the Communist Party of India in 1943.

She was one of the founders of "Parel Mahila Sangh" in 1943, which later became "Janwadi Mahila Sangh", the Maharashtra state unit of the All India Democratic Women's Association.

Rangnekar later became the national working president of the AIDWA and in 2001, she became its patron.

In 1975, she was elected to the general council of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and in 1979, she became its vice president.