Pranav Pandya (AWGP)

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Pranav Pandya is Hindu religious leader and physician who is the head of All World Gayatri Pariwar [1] [2] [3] and Chancellor of Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya. [4] [5] He is the son-in-law of Shriram Sharma. [6] He is also the member of Yug Nirman Yojana [7] and currently serving as Chief Editor of Akhand Jyoti. [8] In 1997, he attend Hindu New Year festival in United States along with Atal Bihari Vajpayee. [9]

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