Prabhudutt Brahmachari

Prabhudutt Brahmachari
Nationality Indian

Sant Prabhuduttji Brahmachari was an Indian guru from Vrindavan(Bansivat) and freedom fighter who ran a Sanskrit school in Basant gaon, New Delhi.[1] He founded his ashram at Jhusi to organize Kumbh Mela. He became close to Golwalker in nearly 1950 and then Rajendra Singh and Golwalker persaded him to stand against Nehru on the cow protection platform and against the Hindu Code Bill.[2] In 1951, he openly challenged Jawaharlal Nehru's election to the 1st Lok Sabha from the Allahabad constituency, challenging Nehru's stance on the ideology of Hinduism in independent India.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Our Rishi & Sants or Maha Kavi". adi gaur ahivasi brahman samaj.
  2. ↑ The Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. 1996. p. 199.
  3. ↑ "Path to politics". Times Of India. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "First Lok Sabha session". Parliament Of India.


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