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Vishnu Ghanashyam Deshpande was an Indian politician. He was born in Mehkar, Vidarbha, Maharashtra. V.G. Deshpande 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-bai Sukalikar, was also a leader of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Nagpur, who contested a couple of elections unsuccessfully.

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  4. ↑ Jaffrelot 1996, p. 82.
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  7. ↑ Statistical Report 1951
  8. ↑ Jaffrelot 1996, p. 112.
  9. ↑ Statistical Report 1957
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