Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt (19 February 1898 – 6 October 1986) born in Hathal (Sirohi) was a freedom fighter and a social worker from

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

state in

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. He was a member of

Constituent Assembly of India The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to frame the Constitution of India. It was elected by the 'Provincial Assembly'. Following India's independence from the British rule in 1947, its members served as the nation's first Parliament as ...

representing

Bombay State Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding Sou ...

and chief minister of princely

Sirohi Sirohi is a city, located in Sirohi district in southern Rajasthan state in western India. It is the administrative headquarters of Sirohi District and was formerly the capital of the princely state of Sirohi ruled by Deora Chauhan Rajput rul ...

state for a brief period. He along with seven others founded

Praja Mandal The All India States Peoples' Conference (AISPC) was a conglomeration of political movements in the princely states of the British Raj, which were variously called ''Praja Mandals'' or ''Lok Parishads''.; The first session of the organisation wa ...

at Sirohi on 22 January 1939 and was an active independence activist from Sirohi and was detained and put in jail for some time by British. After independence he opposed the division of

Sirohi district Sirohi District is a district of Rajasthan state in western India. The city of Sirohi is the district headquarters. As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Rajasthan (out of 33), after Jaisalmer and Pratapgarh. History In 1948 ...

and handover of

Mount Abu Mount Abu () is a hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of the state of Rajasthan in western India.The mountain forms a rocky plateau 22 km long by 9 km wide. The highest peak on the mountain is Guru Shikhar at above s ...

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

. As a result of which Mount Abu remained part of Rajasthan, however, some other parts of district were transferred to Gujarat. He fought for empowerment of backward class He was awarded Padma Bhushan award by the

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in 1971 and the Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Constructive Work, in 1982 He was arrested during the emergency for his vocal protest of emergency. In the jail he started

satyagraha Satyagraha ( sa, सत्याग्रह; ''satya'': "truth", ''āgraha'': "insistence" or "holding firmly to"), or "holding firmly to truth",' or "truth force", is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. Someone w ...

with other satyagrahis and people like Professor Kedar, Ujjwala Arora,

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (23 October 1923 – 15 May 2010) was the 11th vice president of India. He served in that position from August 2002, when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant ...

and others.The People Versus Emergency: A Saga of Struggle by Pra. Ga Sahasrabuddhe , Māṇikacandra Vājapeyī published by Suruchi Prakashan, 1991 - Indi

/ref> He was called as Gandhi of Rajasthan.

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Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in social work Indian independence activists from Rajasthan People from Sirohi district 1898 births Social workers Indians imprisoned during the Emergency (India) Members of the Constituent Assembly of India 1986 deaths Administrators in the princely states of India Prisoners and detainees of British India Social workers from Rajasthan {{India-activist-stub