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A prolific writer and national council member of Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Diwakar Bokare, passed away due to cardiac arrest in Pune recently. He was 70. He was an ardent follower and propagator of Swadeshi model of economics. Condolence meetings were held in Delhi and Nagpur to pay him tributes. Condolence meeting in Delhi was presided over by SJM national convenor Shri Arun Ojha. In his tribute, he described Bokareji as an assertive and articulate advocate of Swadeshi ideology. In the meeting in Nagpur Dr Yogananda Kale, former Vice Chancellor of Nagpur University spoke about the life and works of Bokareji. Diwakar Bokare had studied in depth the Hindu Economics and several other books written by his elder brother Dr Madhukar Bokare, the founder convenor of the SJM. In spite of working with corporate world Diwakar Bokare was firm believer in Hindu viewpoint of economic development.
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