Question

What is the present situation of india harijan sangh?

Answer 1

The Harijan Sevak Sangh (HSS), an all India Non-Governmental Organization was founded by Mahatma Gandhi on September 30, 1932 following a large public meeting held in Bombay under the Presidentship of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. The meeting was attended by all leaders of repute from all over the country. The meeting was prompted by the epic fast of Gandhiji in Yervada Jail near Poona in protest against the nefarious design of Communal Award, which threatened toseparate the so-called untouchables from the mainstream of Hindu Society.The British Government relented by this combined pressure and withdrew the award leading to breaking of fast by Mahatmaji. Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore went to Yervada Jail and gave a glass of fruit juice to Mahatmaji to enable him to break his fast. Harijan Sevak Sangh became the institutional edifice for translating into practice Gandhiji’s ideas of inclusiveness of various sections of the society. G.D. Birla was the first President of the Sangh while the luminaries like Gandhiji, Thakkar Bapa, Rameshwari Nehru and others remained the friend, philosopher and guide of the Sangh tilltheir demise. Padmabibhusan Ms. Nirmala Deshpande, M.P., renowned Sarvodaya leader of the country had been the President of the Sangh till herdemise on 1st May 2008. Sri Radhakishan Malviya, former Central Minister, Sri Laxmi Dass, former Chairman, Khadi & Village Industries Commission and Dr. H.P. Gannegi, Professor of Delhi University are the present President and Secretaries of the Sangh respectively. Since its inception, the Sangh has been tirelessly working for the achievement of its laudable aims by executing different development projects through its Branches all over India. Harijan Sevak Sangh, Bengal, the Statelevel Branch of HSS is working throughout the State for the accomplishment of its lofty aims by implementing multifarious schemes ofsocio-economic & cultural developments and for realization of human rights, gender rights and liberation of people from the bondage of inhuman exploitation. In Bengal, hergreat sons like Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, Prafulla Chandra Sen (all ex-Chief Ministers of West Bengal), Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy, Charu Chandra Bhandari, Dr. Satish Dasgupta, SitaramSaksheria, Bhagirath Kanoria, Krishna Kumar Birla, Prof. Priya Ranjan Sen, Sakti Ranjan Bose and other renownedpersonalities adorned the post of the Chief Executive of the Sangh at various times.