Gopinath
Pandurang Munde (12 December 1949 – 3 June 2014) was an Indian
politician from Maharashtra. He was a senior leader of the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP). He was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) for
five terms during 1980-1985 and 1990-2009. He was also the Leader of
Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly during 1992-1995. He
has held the post of Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra in
1995-1999.Munde was elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 and 2014, and served
as the Deputy Leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha. He was appointed as
the Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in
Narendra Modi's cabinet.
Munde
got involved into Politics when he met Pramod Mahajan, a friend and
colleague in the college. As a member of the Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad, he took part in the agitation against the state
of emergency imposed by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He was
incarcerated in the Nashik central jail until the Emergency was
lifted.
In
1971, he associated with the campaign of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh
candidate in the Lok Sabha election in the Beed constituency. He
attended the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Shiksha Varga (Training
Camp) held in Pune that year. He soon became the Sambhajinagar Mandal
Karyavah, looking after half a dozen shakhas of the RSS, and
subsequently, the in-charge of its Pune City Students' Cell. Later,
he was made a member of the executive committee of the city RSS. The
Janata Party by this time had split, and the Bharatiya Janata Party,
founded by the leaders the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh had come
into existence. Munde was made President of the Maharashtra unit of
the BJP's youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.
Munde was involved in a road accident at 6:30 AM on June 3, 2014, while on his way to the Delhi airport. The accident took place at Aurobindo Marg in South Delhi. He was brought to AIIMS by his personal assistant and driver, 10 minutes after the accident. After receiving CPR, he was declared dead at 7:20 AM.The driver of the car has been taken into custody as per reports.
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