On his death anniversary Indian Cooperative pays its tributes to Lakshmanrao Inamdar whom India Today, in one of its write-ups calls the man behind Narendra Modi.
Lakshmanrao Inamdar- the senior RSS leader founded Sahakar Bharati and had the most profound impact on the Prime Minister Modi in his early years. “Modi attributes his entire personality to Vakil Saheb,” says Prabhat Kumar, who has published four of Modi’s books, including the Inamdar biography.
The FB wall of senior cooperator Jyotindra Mehta is filled with several photographs of Vakil Saheb as late Shree Inamdar was popularly called. Paying tributes to the great soul Mehta, who is also a government nominee on the board of NCUI remembers him as the founder and guide of Saharkar Bharati.
Modi first met Inamdar when he was still a boy in the early 1960s. Inamdar, deputed to Gujarat since 1943, was an RSS pranth pracharak who travelled around the state inspiring youngsters to join shakhas. Modi was captivated by his future mentor’s flawless oratory skills as he addressed a meeting in Vadnagar in fluent Gujarati.
Inamdar was born in Khatav, a village south of Pune, in 1917. One of 10 children of a government revenue official, he joined RSS in 1943 soon after he completed his law degree from Poona University.
He passed away in 1984.