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1929. In 1941, he came to Katni in Mahakaushal as a Pracharak
with Eknath Ranade, the maker of Vivekananda Rock Memorial.
After having some experience there, of the two great
personalities of Nagpur, Yadavram Joshi went to Karnataka
while Madhukarrao first arrived in Surat in Gujarat and started
the Shakha at Parekh Technical Institute. In the beginning, the
Sangh Shakha was started in Vadodara (Baroda) and Karnavati.
Madhukarrao was resolved to spread the Sangh ideology all
over Gujarat. He learnt how to speak Gujarati. Not only this, in
the Vadodara Shakha, where a large number of Marathi
Swayamsevaks too attended, he imposed a ban on their speaking
Marathi and urged them to speak in Gujarati. When the
movement for freedom was at its peak, he laid the foundation
stone of resolute Sangh work in 115 towns which became
possible due to his fantastic organisational skill.

The officials at the national level were so confident at the
organisational skill of Bhagwat that the training sessions
(Prashikshan Varga) for whole of north India and Sindh (now
in Pakistan) were being held in Gujarat during 1943 44. A
number of Swayamsevaks like Lal Krishna Advani had got an
opportunity to train under Madhukarrao.

He accepted the domestic life once again after his mother’s
death and insistence of the family. A few days after his marriage,
his father died. Interested in Sangh work, Madhukarrao once
again came to Gujarat as a Grahasth Pracharak. He worked hard
in order to stabilize the Sangh work in Gujarat, and to make it a
respectable aspect of life there. Perhaps fate willed to test this
work of the affectionate Madhukarrao. The Sangh was still in
its infancy in Gujarat, and it was at this stage in 1948 that a ban
was imposed on it there.

How could Madhukarrao silently tolerate the ban which
was imposed on the Sangh, that was like a seven-year-old infant
then? In the innate mind of the delicate and soft-spoken
Madhukarrao, a flame of struggle came alive. He invested all
his might in order to save his seven-year-old child. You can only
imagine how difficult it was to keep the flame of truth lighted
in the tempest of untruth in Gujarat those days. However,