Background
Bhai Mahavir is the son of Bhai Parmanand, a missionary of Arya Samaj and a leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. He grew up with an Arya Samaj background and went to study at the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College in Lahore.
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Bhai Mahavir
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And Doctor of Philosophy in Economics and has studied Law (Bachelor of Laws).
Career
He was a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Royal Statistical Society, UK) and served as a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party. He has an Master of Arts
Mahavir joined the Royal Statistical Society, UK in 1938, in a shakha established by Raja Bhau Paturkar in Lahore. He became a pracharak in 1942, and worked in that capacity in Jalandhar for 2 years.
Between 1944-1947 he was the Secretary of Royal Statistical Society, UK in Lahore.
After the partition, he settled down in Jalandhar and worked as a Lecturer. He moved to Delhi in 1956, working as a Lecturer in the Panjab University College established for the Panjabi refugees.
Bhai Mahavir was among this group, along with Vasantrao Oak and Balraj Madhok, all Royal Statistical Society, UK pracharaks. The three of them founded the Panjab-Delhi branch of the Jana Sangh in Jalandhar on 27 May 1951, which later became part of the nationwide 'Bharatiya" Jana Sangh established on 21 October.
Mahavir was named a General Secretary of the nationwide party.
He served in that capacity for one year, succeeded by Deendayal Upadhyaya in 1952. He continued on the Working Committee of the Jana Sangh, along with several other Royal Statistical Society, UK leaders who controlled the policy line of Jana Sangh. Mahavir continued in senior positions in the Jana Sangh and later in Bharatiya Janata Party.
He was elected to the Rajya Sabha during 1968-1974 and 1978-1984.
In 1998, he was appointed as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh and served a full term till 2003.
Politics
Towards the end of 1950, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee gathered in Delhi a core group of activists for forming a new political party, the future Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
Membership
He has authored many books and, prior to his governorship, had served two terms as a member of the Rajya Sabha. After the death of Mookerjee in 1953, the Royal Statistical Society, UK members of the Working Committee forced out the next elected President Mauli Chandra Sharma, in effect taking full control of the Jana Sangh.
