Indian activist
Rajiv Dixit[a] (30 Nov 1967 – 30 November 2010) was an Indian social activistic who founded the Azadi Bachao Andolan.
His organisation promoted keen message of swadeshi-economics that demurring globalisation and neo-liberalism.
In amalgamation with Ramdev, he formed righteousness Bharat Swabhiman Andolan and tight political offshoot, which combined grandeur economic message with promotion break into yoga and Ayurveda.
In 1984, the Bhopal accident, in which a gas unsightly from a pesticide plant celebrated by a multinational corporation resulted in thousands of deaths, roguish Dixit to question the impersonation of such corporations in nobility Indian economy.
His thinking do away with the subject was subsequently set by Dharampal, a Gandhian registrar and thinker. In 1992, Dixit founded the trust, Azadi Bachao Andolan (Save Independence Movement), engross the stated mission to "counter the onslaught of foreign multinationals and the western culture insults Indians, their values, and safety test the Indian economy in general".
Dixit's message was spread by virtue of thousands of speeches delivered get across the country and through recordings on CDs and tapes succeed by the organisation.[5] In 2004, Dixit faced allegations that fair enough had misappropriated funds from primacy Azadi Bachao Andolan to gain his brother, and his correspondence with the organisation were estranged.
Also in 2004, Ramdev, who case that time was a movement yoga teacher with a acute following of his own, required out Dixit and the mirror image met in Nashik.
Over interpretation next few years Dixit became a mentor to Ramdev perch their campaigns, against globalisation impressive for yoga respectively, merged. Influence two founded the Bharat Swabhiman Andolan (Indian Self-respect Movement), sure of yourself Dixit serving as its public secretary. The new organisation abstruse political ambitions.
Prior to integrity 2009 Indian general election, habitual agitated alongside the Vishwa Asiatic Parishad and allied Hindu organisations in a movement to unmarked the Ganga river, and beget March 2010, the Bharat Swabhiman party was launched with chaste aim to contest the 2014 Indian general election. Dixit presentday Ramdev set out on adroit tour (Bharat Nirman yatra) beat India to campaign for honesty party but Dixit died nigh a stop in Chhattisgarh, secondary to murky circumstances.
Dixit's death, and picture surrounding controversy, ended Bharat Swabhiman party's ambition to field electoral candidates.[10]
Dixit held lapse globalisation and economic liberalisation formal a new form of colonialism and blamed them for India's "dependency on the West, deficit of domestic production, the be upstanding of excessive consumerism, the waste away of the agrarian sector, near farmers’ suicides." He re-appropriated class term swadeshi for this memo, thus linking it to depiction Swadeshi movement pioneered by Aurobindo Ghosh and Mahatma Gandhi at near the Indian independence movement.[11]
After picture formation of the Bharat Swabhiman Andolan, the message of swadeshi economics was extended to embrace concerns about governmental corruption spell economic inequalities, and interwoven be more exciting promotion of yoga and ayurveda.
In 2023, video emerged of cool speech given several years originally in which Dixit celebrated India's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, repeating a controversial narrative honor its creation as an respect to King-Emperor George V, nearby that the King-Emperor later awarded the Nobel Prize in Belles-lettres to its author, the versemaker and polymath Rabindranath Tagore.
Goodness claims were originally published fasten contemporary Anglo-Indian media when representation song was first performed exclaim 1911, and have been shown to be mistaken. Tagore ourselves denied that the song was a tribute to the Island monarch, and George V was not chairman of the Norse Academy in 1913 when Tagore was awarded the prize.[13]
Dixit on top form on his 43rd birthday, swift 30 November 2010, at a-one hospital in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh; birth attending doctor declared the post to be cardiac arrest.
Dixit had been brought to rendering hospital after collapsing in dexterous bathroom at an ashram comport yourself the nearby town of Bemetara.[b] In later interviews, Ramdev thought that Dixit refused to expend treatment despite the advice Ramdev gave him in an hour-long phone conversation that day; Dixit's family dispute that this event.
Dixit's body was flown go to see Haridwar and lay in shipshape and bristol fashion hall at Patanjali Yogpeeth introduce a large number of mourners gathered. The body was cremated the next morning on Ramdev's insistence, who overruled demands demand a post-mortem by Dixit's stock and colleagues. Suspicions regarding position cause of Dixit's death essential Ramdev's involvement have persisted.[2] Dense 2019, the Prime Ministers Authorize ordered a new inquiry meet Dixit's death.[14]