Narendra Modi : A Pracharak to the Prime Minister of India
News Bharati 16-Sep-2019
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Narendra Modi - A Swayamsevak
Shri Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi was born in a lower-middle-class family at Vadnagar in the Mehsana district of Gujarat on 17 September 1950. He joined as a swayamsevak in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh under the persuasive influence of several tall Sangh leaders, but most importantly motivators like late Lakshmanrao Inamdar aka “vakilsaab”.He completed his three years’ ‘Officers Training Course’( OTC ) in 1973.
Narendra Modi, a boy from an unpreviledged family in rural Gujarat .. then an RSS Pracharak.. later a BJP organising secretary and later a leader who mesmerised masses with his unparallel oratory and groundwork- has become a global phenomenon now. Probably Narenra Modi is the only PM who has gained the status of “Peoples PM” after Late Lal Bahadur Shastri and Laye Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Modi has elevated the post of Prime Mnister to a troubleshooter, a visionary and a path breaker leader of India whose vision of development has engulfed entire globe.
NewsBharati is publishing the series of three articles on PM Narendra Modi on his 69th birthday. Dr Sharad Khare explains the factors that made Narendra Modi not a leader but an icon on global stage.The ‘pracharak’ :
Shri Narendra Modi later left home to become a Sangh Pracharak and he remained a ‘pracharak’ for a long period from 1973 to 1988 until he was deputed to work as an Organising Secretary of the Gujarat State and Central BJP till 2001. He had in his family his old mother – Heeraben, four married brothers – Somabhai, Amrutbhai, Prahladbhai and Pankajbhai – and a married sister – Vaasantiben.
Pracharak is a position in the structure of RSS, which is respected very much. A pracharak is a person who works for
the growth of RSS on a full-time basis. He is like a “sanyasi”, working for 24 hours round the clock and has no personal ambition or lust for anything. He never develops any personal agenda nor has any preferences. An ideal ‘pracharak’ is a selfless social worker, face-less in his attitudes without disturbing the facts in view. He maintains equidistance with everyone in order to avoid the charges of favouritism. He is loyal to the organisation. The aims and objectives of the organisation i.e. the RSS are absolutely clear to him. His lifestyle is simple. There is no exhibition of rich presentation. He has to develop a faculty of planning and managing various events without any sort of friction in society. He believes in what he does. He maintains a decorum of decency which becomes an ideal for others to imitate. His honesty is impeccable. He expresses all the qualities of a family man.
the growth of RSS on a full-time basis. He is like a “sanyasi”, working for 24 hours round the clock and has no personal ambition or lust for anything. He never develops any personal agenda nor has any preferences. An ideal ‘pracharak’ is a selfless social worker, face-less in his attitudes without disturbing the facts in view. He maintains equidistance with everyone in order to avoid the charges of favouritism. He is loyal to the organisation. The aims and objectives of the organisation i.e. the RSS are absolutely clear to him. His lifestyle is simple. There is no exhibition of rich presentation. He has to develop a faculty of planning and managing various events without any sort of friction in society. He believes in what he does. He maintains a decorum of decency which becomes an ideal for others to imitate. His honesty is impeccable. He expresses all the qualities of a family man.
Shri. Modi, by qualification (externally earned degree), is an M.A. (Political Science) of the Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, and thus a political scientist. He has developed his own thinking of policy-making function as how to bring about economic development in the state. His image has been absolutely clean, his intentions absolutely honest, his outlook very simple, and his behavioural pattern and dealings absolutely transparent. He moved at the grass-root level with all these qualities. His advice to all those around him would be replete with social content. Service to the nation was his passion. It was his mission. As a Pracharak, he worked amongst lower-income group strata, he suffered from scarcity and poverty-stricken day to day life. He never owned big estate or landed property nor maintained fat bank accounts. He proudly credits his dedication to his social service to the teachings of the RSS and its founders Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and Shri Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (Shri Guruji) and of course late Vakilsaheb i.e. Laxmanraoji Inamdar, Gujarat State RSS organizer, who hailed from Satara in Maharashtra, whose teachings influenced him most and whose association moulded his life. His feelings and reverence for all those 16 personalities whose lives had great impact on his own life are expressed in his book titled “Jyotihpunj.
