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Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan's book 'Matoshree' released

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she had written the play more than 35 years ago as a volunteer of the Rashtriya Sevika Samiti, women's wing of the RSS.

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New Delhi, April 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday released a book 'Matoshree', based on life of Maratha Queen Ahilyabai Holkar, authored by the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

After the release, a play based on the book was staged at Balayogi Auditorium in the Parliament Library Building with the Prime Minister, several Union ministers and MPs in attendance. Mahajan said she had written the play more than 35 years ago as a volunteer of the Rashtriya Sevika Samiti, women's wing of the RSS.

Mahajan, the Lok Sabha MP from Indore, said through the play, she wanted to show "an Indian way of good administration". Ahilyabai, the daughter-in-law of Maratha chieftain Malhar Rao Holkar, was the Queen of Indore from 1767 to 1795.

Here are the images of the book release of the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan:

PM Narendra Modi releases the book

PM Narendra Modi releases the book "Matoshree" authored by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

"I have written the book but I am not a writer," the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said while welcoming the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Members of Parliament at a function.

PM Narendra Modi releases the book

PM Narendra Modi releases the book "Matoshree"

"I wrote the play and it was staged in Indore and other places but I never wanted it to be published as it could have had discrepancies," the Lok Sabha Speaker said.

PM Narendra Modi interacts with Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

PM Narendra Modi interacts with Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

Sumitra Mahajan said that her friends insisted on its publication and a historian friend from Indore checked it and got it printed.

PM Narendra Modi greets senior BJP leader LK Advani

PM Narendra Modi greets senior BJP leader LK Advani

PM Modi, his Cabinet Ministers and MPs including L K Advani, sat in an auditorium at Parliament premises to enjoy the play on the life of Maratha Queen Ahilyabai Holkar after the book was released.

Organised by Avirat, an Indore-based group active in Marathi and Hindi theatre, the play was directed by Rajan Deshmukh.

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