Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi
Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi (2 August 1931 – 5 April 2015) was an Indian politician who was one of the founding Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members in Rajasthan.
He was imprisoned in 1949 while participating in satyagraha to lift ban on RSS during 1948-50; organized movement against emergency and remained in jail for eighteen months, 1974-76.
He was born on 2nd August 1931 Kota (Rajasthan), he had done MSc in Physics and was working as lecturer in various government colleges (from 1954-1966).
Very few people know that Prof. Chaturvedi was also a scout and became a swimmer by swimming in the Chambal River and was a good player of carrom, cards, contact bridge, volleyball, football and badminton and used to play chess very well.
In 1940, he was influenced by the thoughts of the most respected Dr. Hedgewar ji of the Sangh and when the cholera pandemic spread in India in 1940, Prof. Chaturvedi was 10 years old and spontaneously got involved in service work with a group.
After going to jail, there was an uproar in the house and Nana Shri Anandi Lal, who was a respected person in the society, intervened and asked Prof. Chaturvedi that if you apologize, then we will free you.
One day in 1955, he got a message to come home immediately, you are getting married and as soon as you arrive, the wedding procession will go to Mathura and it is said that women contribute in the making of every great man, Tuesday, June 28, 1955 was his Marriage Date.
He was married to Urmila, daughter of Mumbai resident Shri Chhotalal Ji Chaturvedi.
1956 - 1977 Worker period: - He Worked as a Professor of Physics and being a volunteer and responsible worker of the Sangh, he was transferred 11 times in his 13 years of service, mainly to Banswara, Dungarpur, Jodhpur, Fatehpur Shekhawati, Udaipur, Didwana, Kota, Ganganagar and finally Bharatpur.
While working in a planned way, he goes two steps ahead, he made so much discipline in the college that Rama Kochhar was impressed and she made Chaturvedi her younger brother and Chaturvedi set up the women's wing of the Sangh's Sevika Samiti in the college.
1972 Due to staying outside Kota for the entire time in organization formation, in 1972 he contested elections from Digod area of Kota on Jan Sangh ticket and lost the election to Nagendra Bala of Congress but his enthusiasm did not end.
Held meetings and planned and executed protests and was arrested in August 1975 and remained in Kota jail.
We should be kept in separate cells, we should be allowed to roam freely in the jail, we should have books to read and volleyball to play.
1977 After the Jaiprakash Narayan ji movement, emergency was lifted on March 21, 1977 and when he was released from jail, he was welcomed like a winner in the city and elections were announced.
Mid-term elections were held in 1980 and he again became MLA from Kota and started working in the organization as General Secretary of BJP.
By winning the 1990 elections with a huge majority, he became the Minister of Education, Public Works and Medical Affairs.
In 1991, Chaturvedi ji organized a huge Bhagwat Katha at his Civil Lines residence.
1992 Resignation of the post of Ram Mandir Construction Minister Jogshwar Garg, Satish ji Punia and thousands of workers went, one of them was his elder sister Usha Chaturvedi who went up to the dome and brought a brick from the structure that was demolished.
In 1994, for the first time in the country, a road policy prepared by a minister was made by Lalit ji, which he presented in 1994 for the approval of the cabinet, in which many things were prominent.
After winning the election from Kota, Lalit ji became the cabinet minister of major departments for the first time in the government of Shri Bhairon Singh ji Shekhawat in the joint party government and remained MLA from Kota for 21 consecutive years in 1980, 1985, 1990, 1993.
While being the Minister of Technical and Higher Education, thousands of ITIs were established in Rajasthan to hone the talent of the youth.
This new assembly of Jaipur, its complete map was made by CHC in 1998 and perhaps its foundation stone was also laid by Bhairon Singh ji Shekhawat and Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi.
In 2006 itself, he completed 75 years of his life and his Amrit Mahotsav was celebrated at many places like Jaipur, Kota, Udaipur etc.
The biggest Amrit Mahotsav was held in Birla Auditorium, Jaipur in which the then Sir Sanghchalak Most Respected Shri Surdashan Ji, Chief Minister Smt.
In 2006, Chaturvedi ji completed his two-year presidential term and started working in Rajya Sabha.
