Bhavurao Venkatrao Deshpande was a senior leader of the

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(BJP) and is considered as one of the founding fathers of the BJP in

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, India. He was associated with the

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from a very young age and after completing his education, he dedicated his life to the service of the nation and propagating nationalist thought by becoming a full-time worker (Pracharak) of the RSS. He was later deputed to serve the fledgling

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, the political arm of the RSS. He traveled extensively throughout Karnataka along with

Jagannathrao Joshi Jagannathrao Joshi (23 June 1920 – 15 July 1991) was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was born at Nargund, Karnataka in 23 June 1920. He completed his matriculat ...

and built the party brick by brick. He was arrested along with thousands of other Opposition leaders and workers during the Emergency. After the formation of the

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, he became the

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of the state unit of the party. In 1978, he was elected to the

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from Hubli-Dharwad. He was one of the founding leaders of the BJP and was the state general secretary of the party, and later its vice president. He groomed many young leaders of the BJP such as B.B. Shivappa,

B.S. Yeddyurappa Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (born 27 February 1943), often referred to by his initials BSY, is an Indian politician currently serving as the member of the Bharatiya Janata Party Parliamentary board committee since 17 August 2022, t ...

, Ananth Kumar, K.S.Eshwarappa, Jagadish Shettar and others. He died on 16 May 1984.

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