Rajendra Singh (RSS)

Rajendra Singh Tomar (29 January 1922 – 14 July 2003), popularly called Rajju Bhaiya, was the fourth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

[1][2] Rajju Bhaiya worked as a professor and head of the Department of Physics at University of Allahabad but left the job to devote his life to the RSS in the mid-1960s.

[3] He was born on 29 January in 1922 in village banail district buladshahar city of state Uttar Pradesh, when his father was posted there as an engineer.

Singh shared an excellent rapport with political leaders, cutting across ideological lines, as well as with academics, social workers and intellectuals.

[citation needed] He gave up the post of Sarsanghchalak on account of his failing health in February 2000 and nominated K. S. Sudarshan as his successor.

Initiating the rural developmental activities, he had declared in 1995 that the utmost priority should be given in making the villages hunger-free, disease-free and educative.

[13] Singh wanted to establish a memorial named after Ram Prasad Bismil in Delhi, the capital of India.

[6] He was cremated at Pune's Vaikunth Crematorium the next day, like any commoner, in the presence of then RSS chief K. S. Sudarshan, and top BJP leaders including the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani, and India's Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

Commemorative Plaque located at the Aryabhata Auditorium of the Physics Department "Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research" of the Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, India. Translation from Hindi :”Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiyya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research's Aryabhata Auditorium, was inaugurated by the hands of world renowned scientists Prof. Shri Krishna Joshi - Padma Bhushan F.N.A, Prof. Krishna Lal - F.N.A, Prof. Vikram Kumar - Dr Raja Ramanna Fellow, DRDO, Prof. Bal Krishna Agrawal - F.N.A, Prof. (Dr) Nico F. Declercq - France, on 16 November 2019, and by Prof. Dr Raja Ram Yadav - Vice Chair of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University , Jaunpur .