Revision as of 19:51, 14 June 2018

Early life

Once a model, Bhaiyyu was seen as role model by netas, June 13, 2018: The Times of India

Had Worked For Edu, Water Conservation

Bhaiyyu Maharaj started off as a model before he turned to spirituality and attracted lakhs of followers, including top politicians, in MP and Maharashtra.

Born on April 29, 1968, as Uday Sinh Deshmukh to a family of landlords in Shujalpur, MP, he modelled for a brand of clothing and took to spiritualism in his early 30s. He began to be known as ‘Rashtra Sant’ after he took ‘diksha’ at Shirdi Ashram in Nashik. He had a Mercedes in Indore and was associated with the late Vilasrao Deshmukh and BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and the late Gopinath Munde. It was Vilasrao who got him to persuade Anna Hazare to end his fast in 2011.

Contributions

Once a model, Bhaiyyu was seen as role model by netas, June 13, 2018: The Times of India

Had Worked For Edu, Water Conservation

He had worked for water conservation and children’s education but shunned the limelight for two years.

CM Devendra Fadnavis said, “He set up Suryoday Parivar and undertook social welfare schemes in Vidarbha. He had taken up the cause of the downtrodden and economically weaker sections of the society. He was instrumental in organising mass marriages and launched a movement for water conservation.”

In the wake of farmer suicides in Vidarbha, Bhaiyyu drafted a plan to enhance the financial status of farmers. After a minor girl was gangraped and murdered in Kopardi in Ahmadnagar, parents there decided not to send their daughters to school. Bhaiyyu provided four stateof-art school buses with CCTVs and security guards for the girls in Kopardi.