Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini is a not-for-profit organisation established in memory of the Rambhau Mhalgi. Established in 1982, RMP is a learning and research organisation for government leadership aspirants and current government leaders of

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. RMP has been granted special consultative status by the

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. The organization operates nationally through its offices in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, and its headquarters in Thane. Since its establishment in 1982, RMP has trained many government leaders. RMP is often linked with the

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and right-wing

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outfit. It is a recognized research centre by

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History

RMP government leadership training mission was implemented first at the behest of parliamentarian Rambhau Mhalgi. Mhalgi was influenced by RSS thinker and BJP leader

Deendayal Upadhyaya Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968), known by the epithet Panditji, was an Indian politician, a proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bh ...

, who had conceived the idea of a learning establishment for government leadership aspirants and current government leaders of

. In 1982,

Pramod Mahajan Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young " technocratic" leaders. At the time ...

, senior BJP leader, opened Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini at

Keshav Srushti Keshav Srushti is a nature retreat of about , located at Uttan village, in the northern Mumbai suburb of Bhayander, India. It is a unified campus of several organisations, run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in the memory of its founder Dr. ...

campus at Uttan village, near

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. In January 2020, the

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objected to training government officials at RMP citing right-wing political leaning of RMP.

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