In the final years of his life, Jai Bahadur Singh Shekhawat would venture onto the lawns of his residence on Jaipur’s Sardar Patel Marg using a walker to support himself. He lived just a few hundred metres away from the Rajasthan BJP headquarters and sat for hours receiving visitors – workers from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Sangh Parivar flocking to seek his blessings.
His nephew Pratap Singh, the prant adhyaksh of the Hindu Jagran Manch recalls how his uncle used to devote most of his time to the Sangh. Each morning, he would reach the RSS office by 6 am and cycle down to his own office at the state insurance department thereafter. One of the most important contributions of Jai Bahadur Singh Shekhawat has been the furthering of saffron ideology in Rajasthan and the building of Bharat Mata Mandir, where the VHP office is presently situated, just a few lanes behind his residence. Shekhawat went to jail during Emergency with other opposition leaders and dissenters under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and also led a long campaign against cow slaughter, going on to become a well-known RSS leader. Although he distanced himself from mainstream electoral politics, his...
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