New Delhi, May 2 : Balraj Madhok, a founder leader of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh who was later destroyed from the party, died here on weekday at age ninety six, the RSS added.
Madhok, who had been sick for a few days, died around 9.00 a.m. at his residence in New Rajendra Nagar in central Delhi, a Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh representative told IANS.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared Madhok “was altruistically dedicated to the state and society” and “his philosophical commitment was robust and clarity of thought immense”.
Born on February 25, 1920 in Skardu currently in Pakistan, Madhok was educated in Srinagar and Lahore. 2 years before he graduated in 1940, he became a member of the RSS in Lahore.
He became a regular member of the RSS in 1942 and have become politically active in Jammu and Kashmir. At one purpose, swayer Abdullah externed him from the state.
Initially related to the Praja Parishad Party in Jammu, Madhok joined hands with others to make the Jana Sangh. He was additionally a founding father of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the RSS student wing, in 1951.
Elected to the Lok Sabha in 1961, Madhok served because the president of the Jana Sangh in 1966-67 once the party was a force in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and so undivided Madhya Pradesh.
Although his marginalisation within the Jana Sangh began in 1973, once then president L.K. Advani expelled Madhok from the party, he was among the thousands of political activists confined throughout the 1975-77 Emergency era.
Post Emergency, Madhok found out the Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh however it didn’t click and also the former Jana Sangh president slowly pale away.
