Sri Rajiv Dixit Swami Ramdev on The Traces of British Culture in India

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Rajiv Dixit was an Indian social activist. He started social movements in order to spread awareness on topics of Indian national interest through the Swadeshi Movement, Azadi Bachao Andolan, and various other works.[1] He served as the National Secretary of Bharat Swabhiman Andolan.[2] He was a strong believer and preacher of Bharatiyata.[3] He had also worked for spreading awareness about Indian history and issues in the Indianeconomic policies.[4] Life Rajiv Dixit was born on 30 November 1967 in Naah village of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Under the tutelage of his father Radhe Shyam Dixit, he was educated till the 12th grade in the village schooling system in Firozabad. He was influenced by the ideologies of Indian revolutionaries like Dayanand Saraswati, Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and Udham Singh. Later in life, he began to appreciate the early works of Ram Prasad Bismil. His life was also dedicated to causes like stopping alcohol and gutka production, cow-butchering and social injustices. On the 9th of January 2009, he became one of the founders of Bharat Swabhiman movement. After his death, a building called "Bharat Swabhiman" constructed in Haridwar has been renamed "Rajiv Dixit Bhawan" in his memory. He worked with Prof. Dharm Pal to find the ancient technical knowledge of India through a survey done by William Adams in 1820. Additionally, he exposed the defeat of India from China in the war of 1962 and the mystery behind the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. According to some source, as Rashtra bandhu Rajiv Dixit, a purely Swadeshi person, never used foreign products for any reason. Work Rajiv Dixit suggested that the Indian supreme court should declare money held by Indians in Swiss banks as national property so that foreign banks would have to legally hand over this money to India.[5] He fought various MNCs like Manforce, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Du Pont, Hindustan Unilever, and Colgate as he considered that these companies are draining the wealth of India, making it poorer.Nobody knows where he worked Movements Rajiv Dixit supported the movement of opening a chain of Swadeshi General Stores, where only Indian-made goods are sold. He believed in Swadeshi.[6] He initiated movements like the Swadeshi Movement and Azadi Bachao Andolan (Save Freedom Movement)[7] and became their spokesperson.[8] He addressed a rally of over 50,000 people under the leadership of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch in New Delhi.[9] He also took leadership of the programme held at Calcutta which was supported and promoted by various organizations and prominent personalities and was celebrated all over India on the eve of the 150th Anniversary of the 1857 war of Indian Independence.[9] He demanded decentralization of taxation system, saying that the current system is the core reason for the corruption in bureaucracy. He said that 80% of taxes is being used to pay the politicians and bureaucrats and just 20% for development purposes for the people. He compared the current budget system of the Indian government to the earlier British budget system in India, presenting statistics to show that they are the same. Recently he was working with Swami Ramdev in Bharat Swabhiman Trust as national secretary.[10] He also doubted the terrorist attack on the United States Twin Towers, claiming that it was stage managed by U.S. Government itself, and supported the claims of the Lone Lantern Society of the U.S.[11] He also said that "liberalization, privatization and globalization, the three evil faces staring at us today, have pushed us towards a suicidal state."[1] Presenting an exhibition on the violent history of colonialism in 1998, he argued that these were its modern forms.[12] He argued that modern thinkers have neglected agricultural sectors and farmers have been left to feed themselves and commit suicide.[1] Expressing his views on the Indian judiciary and legal system, he said that India is still following the laws and acts enacted during the British era and had not taken the burden of changing them as per the requirement of Indian people.[2] He accused Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, of being an agent of USA. He claimed that a huge stock of radioactive elements is buried in the Indian sea below Setu Samudram, also known as Sri Ram Setu. These radioactive elements could be used to produce electricity and Nuclear weapons for coming 150 years. He also accused that Indian government is trying to break that bridge, which is more than 7000 years old. Death Rajiv Dixit was in Bhilai,Chhattis­garh, to deliver a lecture as a part of his Bharat Swabhiman Yatra, where he died. His death was unexpected and the circumstances around his death are uncertain and the cause of his death is unknown. His death has been portrayed natural citing the reason of cardiac arrest. The fact that no post-mortem was done after his death and his blue-black body, however, speak a different story. The mainstream media was silent about his death.[13]