Indulal Yagnik

Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik (22 February 1892 – 17 July 1972) was an Indian independence activist and a Member of Parliament from 1957 to 1972.

He was a leader of the All India Kisan Sabha and one who led the Mahagujarat Movement, which spearheaded the demand for the separate statehood of Gujarat on 8 August 1956.

Yagnik completed his primary and secondary education in Nadiad and after passing the matriculation examination in 1906, he joined the Gujarat College in Ahmedabad.

[3] Yagnik brought the tri colour flag from Stuttgart, Germany which was hoisted by Madam Cama.

In 1915, along with Jamnadas Dwarkadas and Shankerlal Banker, he published an English language magazine, Young India, from Bombay.

[3] In 1936, he took active initiative in the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha and participated in its first session alongside Swami Sahajananda Saraswati.

[10] In June 1960 he founded the Nutan Maha Gujarat Janata Parishad and was re-elected to the 3rd Lok Sabha as its candidate in 1962.

After it failed to take off, he went solo, launched Young India Pictures, and made Goddess Mahakali (1928).

He quit films before the talkies era began, especially after his Kashmir Nu Gulab (1931) failed commercially, immersed himself in nationalist politics.

Statue of Indulal Yagnik in a garden at east end of Nehru Bridge , Ahmedabad