V G Deshpande | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 1952–1957 | |
| Succeeded by | Vijaya Raje Scindia |
| Constituency | Guna |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mehkar,Maharashtra,India |
| Political party | Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha |
| Relations | N G Deshpande (brother) Sumatitai Suklikar (cousin) |
Vishnu Ghanashyam Deshpande was an Indian politician. He was born in Mehkar,Dist. Buldana,Maharashtra. He was the general secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha. [1]
V.G. Deshpande took part in the civil resisters' mission of the Hindu Mahasabha to the Hyderabad state in March 1939,to protest against the Nizam's rule. [2]
During the period of 1948 to 1952,V.G. Deshpande was repeatedly targeted by preventive arrests. [3] On 27 January 1948 he had denounced Mohandas Gandhi,claiming Gandhi was responsible for the Partition of India. [4] After the murder of Gandhi three days later by a Hindu Mahasabha member,Deshpande was arrested. [5]
In the 1951 general election,V.G. Deshpande managed to get elected from two Lok Sabha constituencies (Gwalior and Guna). [6] In Guna he obtained 56,518 votes (40.70% of the votes in the constituency),defeating the Indian National Congress candidate Gopi Krishna Vijayvargiya. In Gwailor he got 65,695 votes (45.49%),defeating the Vaidehi Charan Parashar. [7] He renounced his Gwailor seat,to enable Hindu Mahasabha president N. B. Khare to contest it in a by-election. [6]
V.G. Deshpande lost his parliamentary seat in the 1957 general election to Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia of the Indian National Congress. [8] He finished second with 58,521 votes (33.04% of the votes in Guna). [9] He later joined the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. [10]
In early 1964,V.G. Deshpande called for on the Indian and Pakistani governments to initiate a population exchange,transporting the Hindu minority of Pakistan to India and expelling the Muslims of West Bengal and Assam to Pakistan. [11]
V. G. Deshpande took part in the foundation of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in 1964. [12]
His brother,N.G. Deshpande (1909-2000),was a noted Marathi poet. His cousin,Sumati Sukalikar,was also a leader of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Nagpur,who contested a couple of elections unsuccessfully.
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