Balkrishna Ganesh Khaparde (1882–1968) was a leader of the

Swaraj Party The Swaraj Party, established as the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party, was a political party formed in India on 1 January 1923 after the Gaya annual conference in December 1922. Chauri Chaura The Swaraj Party was formed on 1 January 1923 by Indi ...

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Amravati Amravati (/Marathi phonology, əmᵊɾɑʋᵊt̪iː/) is a city in Maharashtra located in the Vidarbha region. It is the ninth largest city in Maharashtra, India & second largest city in the Vidarbha region in terms of population. It is the ...

, India. He was a lawyer by profession like his father Ganesh Shrikrishna Khaparde who was a close ally of

Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak (; born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: eʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək; 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya (IAST: ''Lokamānya''), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence ...

. He belonged to ‘Tilak School of Thought’ and was a prominent leader in Swarajya Party. He was twice elected to the Second and Third Provincial Central Provinces Legislative Council in 1923 and 1927. He was minister of

Central Provinces and Berar The Central Provinces and Berar was a province of British India and later the Dominion of India which existed from 1903 to 1950. It was formed by the merger of the Central Provinces with the province of Berar, which was territory leased by the ...

state. He used to write under the pen name ''Baba Bharti'' in the Marathi Magazine Prasad, published from Pune and wrote the book ‘From Science to Samadhi’. He was the chief trustee of the Badrinath Temple and as such he had to walk 120 miles from Dehradun to the interior of the Himalayas to open the gates of

Badrinath Temple Badarinath or Badarinarayana Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu, located in the town of Badrinath in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India. The temple is also one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu for Vaishnavas, who ...

after winter every year. His name is still adorned in the temple. In 1968, he courted death by Prayopaweshan, meaning to liberate the immortal soul from the mortal body by voluntary fasting unto death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Khaparde, Balkrishna Ganesh People from Amravati 1968 deaths 1882 births Marathi politicians Hindu Mahasabha politicians Swaraj Party politicians