K. N. Govindacharya

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K. N. Govindacharya (born 1943) is an Indian politician and the former General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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K. N. Govindacharya was born in 1943 in the holy city of Tirupati and brought up in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Shri K. N. Govindacharya completed his formal education in Varanasi. He completed his M.sc. from Banaras Hindu University in 1962. During his student life shri K.N. Govindacharya was very active in the programmes of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. In 1965 he decided to give his full time to the RSS and joined it as a Pracharak.

1974 was a turning point in the history of Indian politics when Shri Jay Prakash Narayan gave the call of Sampurna Kranti (Total Revolution). Shri K.N. Govindacharya played a crucial role in the JP movement on behalf of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. In 1976 he was sent in Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a students organisation associated with RSS. He worked there for the next few years as a member of all India team. In 1988 RSS sent him to work in Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). He was General Secretary of the Party till the year 2000.

K.N. Govindacharya former Bharatiya Janata Party chief ideologue was the controversial general secretary of the Party, was sidelined by party leaders not long. He was one of the intellectual the hindu revivalist forces ever produced. Sri Ran janambhumu aandolan and the advani rath yatra was the brain child of sri govindacharya. he was the chief architect of the party in mid- 90's and was responsible for the social engineering, delegation of party responsibilities to OBC previously dominated by upper cast leaders. ago.^[1]

In 1980s Shri K.N. Govindacharya came to know about the disastrous impact of Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations and the prospects of WTO. He became restless when India joined the WTO in mid 1990s. It was very much agonising for him when he found that not only BJP, but all the mainstream political parties are more than willing to follow the dictates of the WTO without caring for its implications. In this background Shri K.N. Govindacharya decided to take leave from the active politics in September, 2000 and devoted 2 years to study the impact of globalisation on polity, society, economy and culture in India.

In course of his study, Shri K.N. Govindacharya realised that in the Indian context State alone can not be the decisive force. Here social capital and cultural practices play far more important role even in economic development of the country. Today Shri K.N. Govindacharya believes that challenges before the nation have to be confronted on three fronts - creative, intellectual and agitational. Therefore, he founded three organisations to fight on these three fronts.

Bharat Vikas Sangam : This is working for needed model of economic development directed towards swadeshi and decentralisation.

Kautilya Shodh Sansthan : This is a research organisation working in the civilisational context of Bharat.

Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan : This organisation opposes the anti people and anti nature policies of the governments without having any political aspiration of its own.