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; Mohan Bhagwat, Nitin Gadkari pay tributes
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Last Updated: Dec 20, 2020, 01:57 PM IST
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In January this year, Vaidya triggered a controversy with his demand of dividing Maharashtra into four parts, and came in for attack from various quarters over the demand.
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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.
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The former chief editor of the city-based pro-RSS Marathi daily Tarun Bharat , Vaidya, who had recovered from coronavirus infection recently, died at a private hospital in Nagpur on Saturday.
M.G. Vaidya, who passed away in Nagpur Saturday, had become an RSS swayamsevak in the 1940s. Photo: Twitter
Religion20/Dec/2020
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue and the organisation’s first spokesperson, Madhav Govind Vaidya, died on Saturday after a brief illness, his family said. He was 97.
Vaidya, who had recovered from coronavirus infection, died at a private hospital in Nagpur, his grandson Vishnu Vaidya told PTI. The last rites will be held on Sunday.