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started together. He got an opportunity to look at late Rajpal
Puriji, late Madhukarrao Bhagwat, and late Lakshmanrao
Inamdar (Vakil Saheb) from close quarters. On the insistence of
Vakil Saheb, he started to live in the Sangh office at Manek
Chowk while he was still learning the gold work. The fine
qualities in Nathabhai were family contacts and entertaining
guests. Now, small responsibilities of the Sangh started to be
assigned to him. As the scope of his responsibilities increased,
Nathabhai started to focus more attention towards self-
development.

In 1961-62, Nathabhai started life as a Pracharak. He gave
up the work of moulding gold and busied himself in moulding
lives. Those days, the Sangh work had just started, and it was
progressing gradually. Nathabhai initiated his life as a Pracharak
with the post of the organisation secretary with the Jana Sangh.
The duo of Vasantbhai and Nathabhai strengthened the
foundation of the Jana Sangh with insight.

Nathabhai witnessed many ups and downs in life. If we
see, Nathabhai got merely fifteen years of time to work
satisfactorily, during which he earned a great fame.

Self-development
Nathabhai did not attend school, yet he moulded himself

on the path self-development with his own insight and energy.
Between 1970-80, he was counted amongst the finest orators in
Gujarat. Hordes of workers were always seeking him for the
public meetings. He was the focus of attention due to his
impressive speech, logical arguments, reference to interesting
tales, cleverness and fearlessness. He took the meetings by
storm. Whatever might be the subject of a meeting, whether it
was a stage set for intellectuals or it was a meeting held by the
members of the Lions or Rotary clubs, whether it was to discuss
the policing points of the Jana Sangh or it pertained to
undertaking serious discussion on the problems being faced by
the country, he was equally impressive and sharp.

He did not have the luck of learning English, but his desire
for self-development was so strong that when the Sangh office –