Kewalram Ratanmal Malkani (19 November 1921 – 27 October 2003) was a journalist, historian and politician associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Vice-President of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling p ...

from 1991 to 1994. He was Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2000 and served as

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of Puducherry from July 2002 till his death in October 2003. He is the only person to have been chief editor of both '' Organiser'' and ''

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''.

Life

Born in Hyderabad, Sindh, (now in Pakistan), he received his education at D.G. National College, Hyderabad, Fergusson College, Pune, School of Economics and Sociology, Mumbai. He was Nieman Fellow at

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, USA from 1961 to 1962.Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel's government held to ransom by group of 47 BJP MLA
/ref> Malkani is believed to be the first person to be arrested in the country, in the

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, just two hours after it was declared at midnight on 25 June 1975. He was among the last to be released, ''after'' election results were declared in March 1977. Malkani was associated with the

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since its formation and was one of the founders of the

in 1980. He was Vice-President of the Deendayal Research Institute, New Delhi from 1983 to 1990. He was a member of the

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from 1994 to 2000. He served as editor of many newspapers and was General Secretary of the Editors Guild of India from 1978 to 1979. He has written several articles and books including "The Midnight Knock" (1977), "The R.S.S. Story" (1980), and "The Sindh Story" (1984), his most popular book on history. His book ''India First'' (2002) is a compilation of several of his articles over the years. His last book, ''Political Mysteries'', explores several major Indian political assassinations including that of Mahatma Gandhi, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, the "Kashmir Princess", "Kanishka aircraft" bombing and the Purulia arms dropping case. The book is a result of his nearly ten years of research. He died on 27 October 2003. Malkani was an author and a journalist, the only person to have been chief editor of both '' Organiser'' and ''

''. He was the youngest brother of freedom fighter N. R. Malkani. He is survived by two sons Arvind and Vikram and a daughter, Sindhu.

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1921 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Delhi Indian male journalists Sindhi people Lieutenant Governors of Puducherry 2003 deaths Bharatiya Jana Sangh politicians Indians imprisoned during the Emergency (India) Indian Sindhologists 20th-century Indian historians Scientists from Puducherry Rajya Sabha members from Delhi Indian expatriates in the United States {{Delhi-BJP-politician-stub