She joined the All India Trade Union Congress, the trade union arm of the Communist Party of India, and led several labour strikes which led to her arrest and solitary confinement in 1932.
彼女はインド共産党の労働組合である全インド労働組合会議に加わり、いくつかの労働争議を指導し1932年に逮捕され、独房に閉じ込められた 。