NAGPUR: An era came to an end for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with the demise of its senior ideologue Madhav Govind Vaidya on Saturday. The 97-year-old former editor of ‘Tarun Bharat’ a newspaper with RSS leanings wasn’t keeping well for the last few days and breathed his last at around 3.30pm. Vaidya had recovered from Covid a month ago. He succumbed to an oldage-related illness, his family said. He is survived by wife Sunanda, 3 daughters and 5 sons, one of whom Manmohan, is a senior RSS functionary.
Fondly called ‘Baburao’ in RSS’ inner circles, Vaidya, who was older than the RSS itself, also outlived all the Sarsanghchalaks. Born in 1923, two years before the RSS was established, he joined the Sangh at the age of 8.
NAGPUR: The last rites of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Madhav Govind Vaidya were performed at a crematorium at Nagpur in Maharashtra on Sunday.
Vaidya, 97, the first spokesperson of the RSS, died at a private hospital here on Saturday after a brief illness.
His last rites were performed at Ambazari crematorium in the city on Sunday morning.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, RSS Nagpur Mahanagar Sanghchalak Rajesh Loya, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, former state energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, swayamsevaks and many other people attended the funeral.
A two-minute silence was observed to pay homage to the departed soul.
Before the cremation, Bhagwat visited Vaidya s residence here in the morning.
RSS ideologue Madhav Govind Vaidya cremated; Bhagwat, Gadkari pay tributes
Madhav Govind Vaidya
Photo via @ManmohanVaidya on Twitter
Nagpur: The last rites of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Madhav Govind Vaidya were performed at a crematorium at Nagpur in Maharashtra on Sunday.
Vaidya, 97, the first spokesperson of the RSS, died at a private hospital here on Saturday after a brief illness.
His last rites were performed at Ambazari crematorium in the city on Sunday morning.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, RSS Nagpur Mahanagar Sanghchalak Rajesh Loya, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, former state energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, swayamsevaks and many other people attended the funeral.
Vaidya believed in inclusive intellectualism, which led him to develop friendship across ideological streams. This uniqueness kept him free from intellectual or ideological orthodoxy. He never hesitated to speak the truth. Books were his unfailing friends and his reading habits made sure that Vaidya was never obsolete in any discourse.
In 2019, I requested him to write the foreword to my book, Understanding RSS. This piece was, perhaps, his last serious contribution in the field of ideas. Succinctly summarising the objective of the RSS, he wrote, “The RSS never aimed at establishing an organised group within the society. Its mission has been to organise the entire society. And everyone knows that any society is a complex existence it functions through various spheres of activities. Politics is one sphere but not the only one. Organising the society means organising all these spheres.” He believed that the organisation is a living instrument of harmonising groups and communitie
RSS ideologue Vaidya cremated; Bhagwat, Gadkari pay tributes
RSS ideologue Vaidya cremated; Bhagwat, Gadkari pay tributes
NAGPUR, Dec 20: The last rites of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Madhav Govind Vaidya were performed at a crematorium at Nagpur in Maharashtra on Sunday.
Vaidya, 97, the first spokesperson of the RSS, died at a private hospital here on Saturday after a brief illness.
His last rites were performed at Ambazari crematorium in the city on Sunday morning.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, RSS Nagpur Mahanagar Sanghchalak Rajesh Loya, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, former state energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, swayamsevaks and many other people attended the funeral.