3. Contributions
Vallabhbhai Patel was
one of the great social
leaders of India. He
played a crucial role
during the freedom
struggle of India and was
instrumental in the
integration of over 500
princely states into the
Indian Union. Despite
the choice of the people,
on the request of
Mahatma Gandhi,
Sardar Patel stepped
down from the
candidacy of Congress
president. The election
on that occasion
eventually meant for the
election of the first
Prime Minister of
independent India.
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6. • Maulana Shaukat Ali, the elder brother of Maulana Mohammad Ali
Jauhar, was a committed and sincere worker of Muslim Cause and a
great freedom fighter who was twice sentenced to imprisonment
by the British Government.
• He served as trustee and later as President of the Aligarh College
Board as well as Secretary and chief Organizer of Central Khuilafat
committee. He led the boycott of the Simon Commission in 1927
and strongly opposed the Nehru Report in 1928. He attended the
Round table Conference and the World Muslim Conference in
Jerusalem in 1932. He was a member of Muslim League
Parliamentary Board. He remained in Legislative Assembly from
1936 to 1938.