Madhav Shrihari Aney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian politician and writer
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Place of Birth: Wani, Maharashtra, India
About Madhav Shrihari Aney
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- Madhav Shrihari Aney (29 August 1880 – 26 January 1968); popularly referred to as Loknayak Bapuji Aney or Bapuji Aney, was an ardent educationist, freedom fighter, statesman, a modern Sanskrit poet and a politician.
- He was also conferred with the title of "Loknayak Bapuji", which means "The People's Leader and Respected Father".
- He was one of the founder of the Congress Nationalist Party.
- He was first among the eminent disciples of Lokmanya Tilak such as N C Kelkar, Kakasaheb Khadilkar, Gangadhar Deshpande, Dr B S Munje, Abhyankar, T B Paranjpe and Vaman Malhar Joshi, who walked in the footsteps of Tilak.
- Accepting the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi on the death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
- Aney persuaded his colleagues to see the writing on the wall.
- At the same time he was not blind in his loyalty.
- He disapproved Congress throwing itself in Khilafat Movement and warned against excessive wooing of Muslims at the cost of national interests.
- He regarded unity at any price as elusive and dangerous.
- Since the best safeguard for the minority was the goodwill of the majority.
- He never permitted his critical faculties to be blurred by emotion.
- Mahatma Gandhi admiring his calm logic, confined in him and often sought his counsel.
- He was chosen to arbitrate the disputes between Subhash Chandra Bose and Jatindra Mohan Sengupta.
- He was never a breaker or a destroyer but was always a cementing factor believing in synthesis and not in segregation.
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