Bhakt Darshan
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Bhakt Darshan served Garhwal
as Member of Parliament in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lok Sabha
(India
) as well as a Deputy Minister and Minister of State in Lal Bahadur Shastri
's and Indira Gandhi
's governments.
, was born in 1912. In December 1911 the third and last Delhi Durbar
was held to commemorate the coronation of King George V
and Queen Mary
as Emperor and Empress of India. In their honour Gopal Singh Rawat named his youngest son Raj Darshan, a name which was later changed to Bhakt Darshan when Bhakt Darshan grew up and under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi
, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Gobind Ballabh Pant joined the Indian Independence Movement
that aspired to India's freedom and statehood in the comity of nations.
's Visva-Bharati University
Santiniketan
, the alma mater of several prominent personalities of the nationalist movement in India, most notably Indira Gandhi
, a former prime minister of India, Satyajit Ray
, Amartya Sen
, Bhakt Darshan joined the freedom struggle at an early age of 14 and suffered imprisonment for several years.
from Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency)
when India got its freedom and held the first general elections in the history of modern India in 1952. He represented Garhwal constituency of Uttar Pradesh successively for four terms during First, Second, Third and Fourth Lok Sabha
between 1952–70, and gracefully resigned from active politics due to defection in Indian National Congress.
's, Lal Bahadur Shastri
's cabinets, and later Minister of State for Transport and Minister of State for Education in Mrs Indira Gandhi
's cabinet. He was the first Chairman of the Kendriya Vidyalaya
Sangathan (Central School Organization). He left politics in 1971 when his beloved party Indian National Congress
, which under the leadership of Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, and other national leaders brought the long-awaited freedom to India, was divided into two factions due to inter-party ideological struggle between the groups headed by Indira Gandhi on the one hand and party hard liners such as Morarji Desai
on the other. Bhakt Darshan didn't want to take sides, so he left to lead a private life in Dehradun
.
During his long public life, Bhakt Darshan took keen interest in the development of Garhwal, especially in the matters of education and general welfare and upliftment of the poor and was associated with several organizations connected with the development of the region.
He was deeply involved in the promotion of Hindi
, he served as Deputy Chairman Hindi Sansthan Utttar Pradesh; Vice Chancellor Kanpur University; Deputy Chairman U.P. Khadi and Gram Udiyog Board, and was intimately connected with various social and cultural organizations.
A promoter of healthy journalism. he was Founder-Editor of 'Karma Bhumi'. a Hindi weekly. He had two publications--'Suman-Smriti-Granth' and 'Garhwal-Ki-Diwangat Vibhutiyan' to his credit.
A renowned and dedicated social and political worker, he truly believed in the Gandhian way of life and organised the Kasturba Gandhi
National Memorial Fund. He worked relentlessly for the welfare of ex- servicemen and serving soldiers and also established Azad Hind Fauj
Relief Fund.
His eldest brother Ganga Singh Rawat served as an administrator in Garhwal
and Kumaon
before and after Indian Independence. At the age of 17 he got married to Savitri Devi and was later blessed with seven children: Jag Darshan, Priya Darshan, Hari Darshan, Sant Darshan, Chandra Darshan, Meera Darshan and Neera Darshan.
Shri Bhakt Darshan died on 30 April 1991 at the age of 79.
Garhwal Division
Garhwal is the north-western region and administrative division of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand which is home to the Garhwali people. Lying in the Himalayas, It is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon region, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the north-west by...
as Member of Parliament in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
(India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) as well as a Deputy Minister and Minister of State in Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:...
's and Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
's governments.
Early life
Bhakt Darshan, the youngest son of Gopal Singh Rawat of Musethi tea estate in GarhwalGarhwal Division
Garhwal is the north-western region and administrative division of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand which is home to the Garhwali people. Lying in the Himalayas, It is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon region, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the north-west by...
, was born in 1912. In December 1911 the third and last Delhi Durbar
Delhi Durbar
The Delhi Durbar , meaning "Court of Delhi", was a mass assembly at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the coronation of a King and Queen of the United Kingdom. Also known as the Imperial Durbar, it was held three times, in 1877, 1903, and 1911, at the height of the British Empire. The 1911...
was held to commemorate the coronation of King George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
and Queen Mary
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
as Emperor and Empress of India. In their honour Gopal Singh Rawat named his youngest son Raj Darshan, a name which was later changed to Bhakt Darshan when Bhakt Darshan grew up and under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Gobind Ballabh Pant joined the Indian Independence Movement
Indian independence movement
The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...
that aspired to India's freedom and statehood in the comity of nations.
Education
Educated at Nobel Laureate Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
's Visva-Bharati University
Visva-Bharati University
Visva Bharati University is a Central University for research and teaching in India, located in the twin towns of Santiniketan and Sriniketan in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India...
Santiniketan
Santiniketan
Santiniketan is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India, approximately 180 kilometres north of Kolkata . It was made famous by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, whose vision became what is now a university town that attracts thousands of visitors each year...
, the alma mater of several prominent personalities of the nationalist movement in India, most notably Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
, a former prime minister of India, Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...
, Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
, Bhakt Darshan joined the freedom struggle at an early age of 14 and suffered imprisonment for several years.
Member of Parliament
Bhakt Darshan was elected the first MP or Member of ParliamentMember of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
from Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency)
Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency)
Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 5 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttarakhand state in northern India.-Assembly segments:...
when India got its freedom and held the first general elections in the history of modern India in 1952. He represented Garhwal constituency of Uttar Pradesh successively for four terms during First, Second, Third and Fourth Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
between 1952–70, and gracefully resigned from active politics due to defection in Indian National Congress.
Union Minister
He was a noted parliamentarian and an educationist as well. As a Union Minister during 1963-71 he held with distinction various important portfolios. He was Deputy Minister for Education in Pt. Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
's, Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:...
's cabinets, and later Minister of State for Transport and Minister of State for Education in Mrs Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
's cabinet. He was the first Chairman of the Kendriya Vidyalaya
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Kendriya Vidyalaya, is a system of central government schools under the Ministry of Human Resource Development ....
Sangathan (Central School Organization). He left politics in 1971 when his beloved party Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
, which under the leadership of Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, and other national leaders brought the long-awaited freedom to India, was divided into two factions due to inter-party ideological struggle between the groups headed by Indira Gandhi on the one hand and party hard liners such as Morarji Desai
Morarji Desai
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977–79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress...
on the other. Bhakt Darshan didn't want to take sides, so he left to lead a private life in Dehradun
Dehradun
- Geography :The Dehradun district has various types of physical geography from Himalayan mountains to Plains. Raiwala is the lowest point at 315 meters above sea level, and the highest points are within the Tiuni hills, rising to 3700 m above sea level...
.
During his long public life, Bhakt Darshan took keen interest in the development of Garhwal, especially in the matters of education and general welfare and upliftment of the poor and was associated with several organizations connected with the development of the region.
He was deeply involved in the promotion of Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
, he served as Deputy Chairman Hindi Sansthan Utttar Pradesh; Vice Chancellor Kanpur University; Deputy Chairman U.P. Khadi and Gram Udiyog Board, and was intimately connected with various social and cultural organizations.
A promoter of healthy journalism. he was Founder-Editor of 'Karma Bhumi'. a Hindi weekly. He had two publications--'Suman-Smriti-Granth' and 'Garhwal-Ki-Diwangat Vibhutiyan' to his credit.
A renowned and dedicated social and political worker, he truly believed in the Gandhian way of life and organised the Kasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Gandhi
Kastürbā Gāndhi was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, marrying him in an arranged marriage in 1883.-Early life and background:...
National Memorial Fund. He worked relentlessly for the welfare of ex- servicemen and serving soldiers and also established Azad Hind Fauj
Indian National Army
The Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...
Relief Fund.
His eldest brother Ganga Singh Rawat served as an administrator in Garhwal
Garhwal Division
Garhwal is the north-western region and administrative division of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand which is home to the Garhwali people. Lying in the Himalayas, It is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon region, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the north-west by...
and Kumaon
Kumaon Division
For Kumaoni/Kumauni People see Kumauni PeopleKumaon or Kumaun is one of the two regions and administrative divisions of Uttarakhand, a mountainous state of northern India, the other being Garhwal. It includes the districts of Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat, Nainital, Pithoragarh, and Udham Singh Nagar...
before and after Indian Independence. At the age of 17 he got married to Savitri Devi and was later blessed with seven children: Jag Darshan, Priya Darshan, Hari Darshan, Sant Darshan, Chandra Darshan, Meera Darshan and Neera Darshan.
Shri Bhakt Darshan died on 30 April 1991 at the age of 79.