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DR. KESHAVRAO BALIRAM HEDGEWAR





         AN INDEPENDENT INDIA WAS
         AN INDEPENDENT INDIA WAS
         AN INDEPENDENT INDIA WAS
         AN INDEPENDENT INDIA WAS


             THE ONLY GOAL OF HIS LIFE
             THE ONLY GOAL OF HIS LIFE
             THE ONLY GOAL OF HIS LIFE
             THE ONLY GOAL OF HIS LIFE



         For freedom fighter Dr. Keshavrao                        BORN: 1 APRIL 1889 | DIED: 21 JUNE, 1940
         Baliram Hedgewar, India's
         independence was the only goal of his
         life. In student life, he pioneered the               t dates back to June 22, 1897, when it was the
         'Vande Mataram' movement and came                     60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's coronation,
         in contact with great revolutionaries              Iand  there  was  a  festive  atmosphere.  A  child  in
         like Arvind Ghosh, Bhai Parmanand,                  the third grade was depressed at the time. During
         Sukhdev and Rajguru etc. Along                      this time, the child threw away the sweets that had
         with establishing the 'Rashtriya                    been  distributed.  When  the  teacher  inquired,  "Do
         Swayamsevak Sangh,' he dedicated                    you dislike sweets? The child's response was, "How
         his entire life to the cause of Hindu               can  the  sweets  of  those  who  snatched  our  own
                                                             kingdom  and  enslaved  us  be  sweet  for  us?  How
         society and the nation...                           can this be a day to rejoice for us? This is a day



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