Prakash Javadekar

Prakash Javadekar (born January 30, 1951) is a member of Rajya Sabha and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was Elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra in 2008. He is the official spokesperson of the party.

Prakash Javadekar
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Occupation	Politician

Early life

Prakash Javadekar was born in Pune to Keshav Krushn Javadekar and Ranjani, a school teacher. He studied B Com from Pune. He was associated with ABVP from student days. His father Keshav Krushn Javadekar was a senior leader of Hindu Maha Sabha and even lead its Pune unit as its President. His father was friend and follower of Veer Savarkar. He worked as joint editor of Marathi Daily started by Lokmanya Tilak - Kesari before having stints with some other newspapers like Tarun Bharat, Kaal as journalist. He still occasionally writes his thoughts in some newspapers. His mother is from Konkan region and was one of the first educated women from her area. Nowadays she conducts free classes of Vedic education for women. Prakash has a sister who is MA BEd and is working as a school teacher, one brother who is BCom working in central bank.

Political life

He was imprisoned in emergency in 1975. He worked for Bank of Maharashtra for some years and joined politics as a full time party worker in 1981. He was member of Maharashtra Legislative Council from 1990 to 2002.

Emergency days

Prakash Javadekar was a student activist and worked for ABVP during days of emergency. He was arrested during emergency for leading a Satyagraha in Pune. While in jail he was diagnosed with major problem in heart but government was not willing to give permission for operation. All the political activists arrested in jail went on fast and finally government budged in. He was operated upon and came out from jaws of death as during those days survival rate of heart surgeries was abysmally low.

Personal life

His wife is principal of Indira Institute of Management. His one son is dentist and another a CA.

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