Union Home Minister addressed the Remembrance Day ceremony on the 15th death anniversary of Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh.
Shri Nanaji Deshmukh (1916 – 2010)
- Nanaji Deshmukh was born in the Hingoli district of Maharashtra.
- Nanaji founded Deendayal Research Institute (DRI) in 1972 to validate the philosophy of Integral Humanism propounded by Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.
Key Contributions
- He was the initiator of the sampooran kranti (total revolution) a call of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan and waged a crusade against the Emergency in 1975.
- He actively participated in Bhoodan Movement started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
- He established Chitrakoot Gramodya Vishwavidyalaya (India’s first rural university) in Chitrakoot and went on to become its first Chancellor).