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work. It was no ordinary task to guide and motivate
Swayamsevaks, Vistaraks and Pracharaks, in order keep them
inclined towards their work, and carry them all towards
accomplishment of common goals. However, he accomplished
all these things so naturally that others felt they were all so easy
tasks. He was a good organizer. He was proficient in organizing
man’s energy in a natural way.

The Sadhana weekly was published in order to strengthen
the national thinkers by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. For
this purpose, there was an old time treadle machine and a
printing press. It was due to insight and enterprising nature of
Deshmukh that the Sadhana’s establishment was converted into
a modern printing press and office.

He was of the view that the Sangh’s Swayamsevaks should
play an active role in the society’s economic development
through cooperative work. In Surat, the condition of the
Panchsheel cooperative bank was going from bad to worse. Due
to his wide contacts, Deshmukh’s attention was drawn towards
this fact. He immediately motivated a few Swayamsevaks
towards it. It did not take long when the command of the bank
came into the hands of the Swayamsevaks, and in a few years,
the bank rose back to its goodwill.

As the Prant Pracharak, Deshmukh got a short stint of only
ten years, yet in this small period, he created a new generation
in every aspect of Sangh’s life which was modern in outlook.
He handed over responsibility to even the young who appeared
to be suitable as per their ability and capability. It is a difficult
proposition to bring about a change in a large organisation like
the Sangh which has been working for so many years and at so
vast a scale. However, in his brief stint, he showed the courage
to develop new systems.

The offspring of a scholarly family in Kashi, who had passed
his childhood in the sacred current of the Ganga; whose entire
family was dedicated to the Sangh; this child belonged to a
family in which each member competed with the other to
sacrifice more and more. With such positive traits, Keshavrao
made Gujarat the land of his action. He passed away on 2 March,
1981.