Adyalkar-Vetran Socialist leader is no more

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SagarWatch@Harish Adyalkar, a thinker, scholar and labour leader and staunch supporter of Ram Manohar Lohia, passed away due to Corona on Thursday. He was 83 years old.

He was admitted to the hospital for treatment after not feeling well for a week. He was tested positive for corona. He was taken out of the intensive care unit on Wednesday due to improvement in his condition. However, his health deteriorated again on Thursday. He died in the evening

He was deeply influenced by the views of senior socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia. Lohia had held a meeting at Golibar Chowk. At the age of sixteen, Adyalkar had gone to this meeting out of curiosity. Hearing his thoughts, Adyalkar’s life took a turn. Since then, he has carried Lohia’s thoughts. He did not give up his thinking until the last breath of his life. He had established the Lohia Study Center. He sowed socialist ideas through ‘Aam Jan Sandesh Patrika’. Along with Lohia, he was influenced by the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi.

Re-known socialist leader Raghu Thakur shares his views about Harish Adyalkar. He said that  'He had the passion to work by spending his salary on public life while working in a railway job. Stayed in a rented house for a long time. The problem was where to live after leaving the rental house. Then local friends Mr Suresh Aggarwal   and Babu took initiatives and collected the money and bought him a house

They stayed in this house till the end. Even after the age of eighty, going to Lohia study centre every day, watching the work of the centre, worrying about its system, preparing the magazine, preparing its contents, typing with a finger even after weakness in the hand, it was a mark of amazing dedication, added Raghu Thakur.

On the demise of Shri adyalkar Raghu Thakur paid his Humble tribute to a true socialist fellow adyalkar and said he was determined to live for Lohia even after a long illness. On August 30, he was told on the phone about the condition of the disease and together with the needs of the common man. Making Lohia study centre the centre of intellectual activities of Nagpur is the result of his hard work and dedication. socialist thinker Raghu Thakur he had a family relationship with him.