Thread by @sheshapatangi1

#Raghuveera – The distinguished scholar, Constituent Assembly member and Bharatiya Jana Sangh president who has been forgotten.
Congress, OK. Even BJP Forgetting Him?
Our tragedy is that successive governments denying Bharatiyas from knowing about people whose contribution was

ENORMOUS but erased so that there's only ONE FAMILY left to worship.

At a remarkably young age, he acquired two doctorates, one of them from Leiden. He made his mark as a Sanskrit don, but by that time, he had acquired proficiency in nine Indian and seven European languages.

His proficiency was such that he could not just read and write, but also conduct full-fledged lectures and orations.
One of his many monumental contributions was the collection of ancient Indian Sanskrit texts from different parts of the world — Mongolia, China, Malaysia and

Indonesia.
The words we daily use like "Sachiv", "Sachivalay", "Doordarshan" was introduced by him.

Raghuveera before joining Jansangh was Congress leader and a member of Constituent Assembly & 2 time RS member from Congress & left it when Nehru continued Anti National Policies

even after being warned that China was not a "Cultural Brother, Rather Expansionist".
Raghu Veera was born in Rawalpindi on 30 December 1902. He did his MA from Punjab University, and received Ph.D. from London. After coming back he became the Head of the Sanskrit Department of

the Sanatan Dharma College, Lahore.

Even before RSS's work began in Lahore, RaghuVeera established Hindu Rakshak Sangh, and used to hold daily drills in DAV College grounds.
The Love for Sanatana Dharma enabled him to join Jansangh decades later.
Raghuveera , coined some

1.50 lakh scientific and parliamentary terms with Sanskrit as the common base just like Latin is for European languages. His Greater English-Hindi Dictionary remains his fundamental contribution to the cause of Indian languages.

Raghuveera aimed to re-establish Bharat as

Jagat Guru by researching, excavating, collecting an estimated THREE LAKH SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS as the relics of the glorious work of the Hindu & Buddhist Sanyasis, spread worldwide & especially in China, Mongolia & South East Asia

He had mastered many languages including Hindi

Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, English, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi.
He was elected first to the Constituent Assembly in 1948 and then to the Rajya Sabha in 1952 and 1957.
In 1948 he clashed with Nehru on the question of Sheikh Abdullah's repressive policies

against Hindu's of Jammu Kashmir represented by Praja Parishad.
Request from RajendraPrasad made him stay back with Congress but he conveyed Sheikh Abdullah wanted Islamiat and not Democracy
In 1956, Nehru Govt sent Raghuveera on a 1 month Cultural Tour for China, Raghuveera

took 3 months to finish it.
When he came back, he had 300 Wooden Box containing rarest of Manuscripts, and Bharatiya antiques.
He also brought home the message that CHINA MUST NEVER BE TRUSTED.
6 years before the China war he told Nehru that his so called "Cultural Bhaai" was in

reality an expansionist, imperialist country only, and that the falsehood of 'Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai' was no more than a sherbet laced with the deadly poison, potassium cyanide.
In Party debates, Dr Raghuveer PLEADED with Nehru for large Anti-China, Anti-Communist Front with

the Buddhist countries of South-East Asia.
(think what would have happened if Nehru considered Raghuveer's suggestion)
Nehru never agreed, proving his wrongs as his rights was more important than Bharat.
Dr Raghuveer, disgusted, ultimately resigned in December 1960 when the

Chinese danger loomed large as the Government of Nehru just watched aimlessly.
In politics Dr. Raghuvira was deeply influenced by Lala Lajpat Rai's ideals and thoughts.
Despite knowing of his lifelong devotion to the Congress, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh invited him to its fold.

He was made president of the fledgling but rapidly expanding political formation.
He continued to be a vocal opponent of Nehru's China policy and delivered several addresses in 1961-1962, the last being only a month before the Chinese aggression.
His commitment to national

welfare was such that he was always prepared to support even his political opponents, when he believed that, what they were proposing was in the national interest.
Dr Raghuveera established International Academy of Indian Culture named 'Saraswati Vihar'. This Vihar was

Dr. Raghuvira's personal centre for Research work in Bharatiya Culture, Literature And Religion.
Although it was first established at Lahore in 1932, but foreseeing the division Dr Raghuveera had shifted the venue of the Saraswati Vihar to Nagpur in 1946 just a year before the

Partition of India.
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia was a socialist to the core but regarded Vira as one of his most reliable friends.
Lohia stood in a by election from Farrukkabad and on 14-May-1963, Dr Raghuveer was going to campaign for Lohia,the car he was travelling met with an

accident and Dr Raghuveera WAS SILENCED.
(WHO BENEFITED BY HIS DEATH?)
Please, DO NOT FORGET this, Top 3 Jansangh leaders,
S.P. Mukherjee, Raghuveera and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya were killed mysteriously under Congress regime.

#ForgottenHeroes
#VANDEMATARAM