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PM pays tributes to Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya on his Jayanti

ABOUT

Madan Mohan Malaviya

• Freedom fighter and social reformer
• Born in Allahabad
• Took early education under the ‘pathshala’ system
• Graduated from the Muir Central College (today’s Allahabad University) in 1879
• Served as the President of the INC on four occasions.
• Awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 2014.
• Editor of a Hindi magazine, ‘Hindosthan’, ‘Indian Opinion’ in 1889
• Started a Hindi weekly ‘Abhyudaya’, an English daily ‘Leader’, a Hindi newspaper ‘Maryada’.
• Instrumental in founding the Benares Hindu University in 1916, became its Vice-Chancellor till 1939.
• Opposed to separate electorates to Muslims and the Lucknow Pact.
• Against the INC’s participation in the Khilafat Movement.
• Participant in the Second Round Table Conference in 1931.
• Started Ganga Mahasabha to oppose construction of dams in the Ganga.
• Worked for the temple entry of Dalits at the Kalaram Temple at Nashik, Maharashtra.
• Founded the organisation Shri Mathura Vrindavan Hasanand Gochar Bhoomi in Vrindavan.