Subhashini Ali

• Name — Subhashini Ali • Birth Name — Subhashini Sehgal • Born — 29 December 1947 • Birthplace — Kanpur, United Provinces, India • Office4 — Member of Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist) • Term Start4 — 2015 • Office — Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha • Constituency — Kanpur • Term Start — 1989 • Term End — 1991 • Predecessor1 — Naresh Chandra Chaturvedi • Successor1 — Jagat Vir Singh Drona • Office2 — President, All India Democratic Women's Association • Education — Women's Christian College, Kanpur University • Successor2 — Jagmati Sangwan • Party — Communist Party of India (Marxist) • Father — Prem Sahgal • Mother — Lakshmi Sahgal • Relations — Swaminathan family • Spouse — Muzaffar Ali (separated) • Children — Shaad Ali • Date — 27 January • Year — 2007

Subhashini Ali is the daughter of Colonel Prem Sahgal and Captain Lakshmi Sahgal (née Dr. Lakshmi Swaminadhan) who were a part of the Indian National Army. She attended Welham Girls' School in Dehradun. She did her bachelor's degree from Women's Christian College in Madras and later did her master's degree from the Kanpur University.

As a trade Unionist and leader of the All India Democratic Women's Association, she was once very influential in the politics of Kanpur where the Communist Party of India (CPI) held sway over trade unions and which elected CPI-supported S.M. Banerjee to Lok Sabha four times from 1957 to 1971. This influence of CPI helped her win the General elections of 1989 to the parliament and she defeated her nearest rival BJP candidate by 56,587 votes from Kanpur. The CPI influence waned after the emergency in 1977 and she lost the General elections of 1996 by 151,090 votes. She finished at the fifth place in the General elections of 2004 polling only 4558 votes (0.74%). She fought the General elections of 2014 from Barrackpore as a CPI(M) candidate but lost. She is currently a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She was inducted to the polit bureau (PB) of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2015 thereby becoming the second women member in PB after Brinda Karat. Ali published her translation of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels into Hindi in 2019.

She was previously married to filmmaker Muzaffar Ali. Their son, Shaad Ali, is also a filmmaker who is known for directing many popular films. Ali is an atheist. She is the cousin of Indian classical dancer Mallika Sarabhai, daughter of her mother's sister Mrinalini Sarabhai and scientist Vikram Sarabhai.