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Deshmukh, the then Prant Pracharak, breathed his last suddenly.
A Prant Pracharak is the chief moving force in the Sangh. All of
a sudden, the official on this high post had left for his heavenly
abode. In such a testing time, Babubhai Ojha was selected as
the Prant Pracharak despite his being a householder. While
carrying out his family duties, he took up the Sangh’s
responsibility equally devotedly. He transformed the Sangh
office as his house, and his contact with the family was reduced
to only telephonic or written conversation. He carried out the
Pracharak tradition in true sense of the term, and invested every
moment of his time in infusing new vitality in the Sangh.

To ensure that he did not lag behind in any of his duties,
Babubhai put in more physical work than he was capable, and
thus accepted the difficult life in all willingness.

It appeared that Babubhai had fully absorbed into the Sangh
work, especially with his perseverant personality and care to
do even trivial things carefully; all this told upon his health
adversely in his advancing age.

However, he did not care about his body. He continued to
work despite some minor ailments. He used to conceal his
ailments from his comrades that it might pain them.
Consequently, he suffered from a heart stroke one day. He
breathed his last working to the last moment of his life.

Babubhai’s affectionate behaviour, continuous work, simple
and natural way of living are all etched in the minds of a number
of Swayamsevaks.