Chief Minister Shri Chouhan pays obeisance to Rani Laxmi bai

Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid obeisance to Rani Laxmibai on her birth anniversary. Shri Chouhan garlanded her portrait in the auditorium at his residence. Rani Laxmibai was the queen of the Maratha-ruled Jhansi state and a martyr of the 1857 first freedom struggle. At the age of just 29, she fought with the army of the British Empire and became a martyr in the battlefield.

Rani Laxmibai was born on 19 November, 1828 in Varanasi. She was named Manikarnika as a child. In 1842, she was married to Raja Gangadhar Rao of Jhansi and became the queen of Jhansi. After marriage she was renamed Lakshmi bai. Jhansi had become a major center of the freedom struggle of 1857. On 18 June 1858, while fighting the British army, Rani Lakshmi bai was martyred.