K. N. Govindacharya

Shri K. N. Govindacharya(के. एन. ग़ोविन्दाचार्य) ( born May 2 1943) is an Indian Patriot, Hindu activist, environmental activist, Nature Lover , Social activist, Thinker, Social Reformer, Public Intellectual. He was formerly associated with BJP.----

---- EARLY LIFE

*Shri K. N. Govindacharya was born in the holy city of Tirupati. He moved to the most holy city of Varanasi at a very young age. Most of his education was in Varanasi. He completed his M.sc.in Statistics from Banaras Hindu University in 1962. As a student leader in various stages, Shri K.N. Govindacharya was very active and closely associated with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. After his Masters in 1962, he became a RSS Pracharak.

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POLITICAL CAREER

*Shri KN Govindacharya could play a decisive role on '09 Indian Elections . Right time and right person to lead India. Looks like he has been preserved and nourished by Bharat Mata for these coming crucial years in Indian History.

*1974 was a turning point in the history of Indian politics when Shri Jayaprakash Narayan gave the call of Sampurna Kranti (Total Revolution).

*Shri K.N. Govindacharya played a crucial role in the movement , popularly called as JP movement . He along with Shri Ram Bahadur Rai , as a pair successfully organized the movement . From 1976 he worked with Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) very successfully in various capacities. In 1988, he was drafted into Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on request. He was General Secretary of the Party till the year 2000.

*K.N. Govindacharya was a chief ideologue for Bharatiya Janata Party and the brain behind several successful Campaigns. He is a walking University on several issues. He is a pioneer for Swadeshi and Hindutva Revival. He identified Shri Rama Janam Bhumi issue and started Aandolan , which is still on. A Rath Yatra was conceived by shri Govindacharyaji which was undertaken by Shri LK Advani. Shri LK Advani owes a lot to Shri KN Govindacharya and Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was the chief architect of the party in mid- 90's and was responsible for the social engineering trigger. He stands for Equal Opportunities. His decline attributed to emergence of Pramod Mahajan and the infighting within the BJP for second line of leadership. Leadership gave more weightage to mahajan over govindacharya. His name is often associated with Uma Bharti, to whom he proposed in early nineties.

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GATT AND WTO

*Shri K.N. Govindacharya forsaw the disastrous impact of Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations and the prospects of World Trade Organization (WTO). His vision for India did not fit India joined the WTO in mid 1990s. It was very much agonizing for him when he found that not only BJP, but all the mainstream political parties are more than willing to follow the dictates of the WTO without caring for its implications. In this background Shri K.N. Govindacharya decided to take "sabbatical leave" from the active politics in September, 2000 .

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SABBATICAL LEAVE AND AFTER

* He devoted himself and studied for 2 years on the impact of globalisation on polity, society, economy and culture in India.In course of his study, Shri K.N. Govindacharya realised that in the Indian context State alone can not be the decisive force. Here social capital and cultural practices play far more important role even in economic development of the country. Today Shri K.N. Govindacharya believes that challenges before the nation have to be confronted on three fronts - creative, intellectual and agitational. Therefore, he founded three organizations to fight on these three fronts.

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*Bharat Vikas Sangam : This is working for needed model of economic development directed towards swadeshi and decentralisation.

*Kautilya Shodh Sansthan: This is a research organisation working in the civilisational context of Bharat.

*Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan : This organisation opposes the anti people and anti nature policies of the governments without having any political aspiration of its own.

----External links

http://www.swabhiman.in/

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[" [http://www.rediff.com/election/1999/oct/05inter.htm The Rediff Election Interview/K N Govindacharya] ", Rediff.com, October 5 1999. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.]

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