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Swami Dayanand Saraswati Founder of Arya Samaj whose laid out policies and principles Mahatma Gandhi followed that is why Pattabhi Sitaramaiya, the President of Congress had said at the time of attaining freedom of India, "Gandhi reaped what Dayanand had sown for the Freedom of India"
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EzraThough this has not been officially declared, but Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya samaj is considered as the 'Rashtrapitamah'. As such he laid the foundation of the freedom movement in India, Mahatma Gandhi also followed his path to get India's independence.
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When Gandhi is called Father or Rashtrapita of the Nation who deserves to be called as Grandfather or Rashtrapitamah of the Nation?
The same question has been asked in many different ways and has been well answered by different contributors. They all should be clubbed and placed.Swami Dayanand deserves indeed to be called Rashtrapitamah of the Nation.
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Who is called the Rashtrapitamah ie the Grandfather of India?
Though constitutionally it has not been declared that Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati is the Rashtrapitamah of India but the people and the nation, believe and say, that Swami Dayanand Saraswati the founder of Arya samaj is the Grandfather of India.Swami Dayanand had proclaimed India for Indians in 1876 (Commentry on Yajurveda -Lazarus Press Banaras 1876). It was his teachings and the book Satyarth Prakash that inspired leaders, scholars, reformers and revolutioneries like Aurobindo Ghosh, Dadabhoy Naroaji, Lokmanya Tilak for the Independence movement.Swami Dayanand's disciple Shyamji Krishan Verma who founded India House in London inspired Madam Cama, Ver Sawarkar, Lala Hardyal, Madan Lal Dhingra, Bhagat Singh etc. who laid down their lives for the independence of India.Alan Octavian Hume, founder of Indian National Congress (that professes the party to be the fore-runner of the freedom struggle) and Annie Besant, the first President had declared that Swami Dayanand laid the foundation of the Freedom movement.Another View:It was for some political situations and compulsions that Mahatma Gandhi was declared Father of the Nation which title swami Dayanand deserved. That is why and how Ananthswami Ayyangar the first Speaker of Indian Parliament and the that time President of the ruling party Indian Nationlal Congress Pattabhi Sitaramayya had to say that Gandhi is the Father of the Nation and Dayanand is the Grandfather of the Nation because Gandhi reaped what Dayanand had sown.
