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Dynamic Personality
Keshavrao Deshmukh

Offspring to a scholarly family in Kashi. Passed his childhood
playing in the holy current of the Ganga. All his family is devoted
to the Sangh. The family atmosphere is replete with the competition
that every member does to sacrifice more and more for the Sangh.
Infused with such noble traits, which made Gujarat his land of
action, Keshavrao’s mortal body blended into the five elements with
the Sabar on 2 March, 1981.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is about an eighty-year-
old mute organisation engaged in man-making. The dedicated
effort of the Sangh revolves round the concept that ‘it is enough
if man has been created’. In a way, the Sangh work has become
an open university of the science of organisation. It is due to
unbroken, continuous, dedicated work over a period of eighty
years that has resulted into a countrywide systematic structure,
in which has evolved an adequate decision-making process. It
has established the noblest values to measure every action in
terms of national interest. Whenever everything is available –
structure, system, and process – still everything is dependent
on the person who looks after this all, who leads this all, who
carries its responsibility.
The foundation of the Sangh in Gujarat was strengthened
due to the hard work of a number of people. The structure has
developed much. In such a time, the late Sh. Keshavrao
Deshmukh took over the responsibility of the Sangh’s Prant
Pracharak in Gujarat. A Prant Pracharak plays a vital role in the
Sangh’s life. When we see the period of Deshmukh during his