Mohar Singh Rathore was a social reformer & political Congress worker
Education
He was taught by his grandfather Thakur Mohabat Singh Ji and his mother, then by Seduram Ji from 1929 to 1933. From 1933–1935 he went Alsisar, 25 km away, at J K High School. In 1935 he joined Birla High School, Pilani, then the following year he was sent with his elder brother to Walter Noble High School, Bikaner until 1942.
He passed the High School Examination with First Division.
He passed Inter Science with First Division from Birla Engineering College, Pilani. He passed Bachelor (Honours) as a non-collegiate student and then Bachelor of Laws from Jaipur.
Career
He advocated for social reforms such as discouraging purdah, dowry, child marriage & Un-touchability. He contested election for the Legislative Assembly again in 1967 but lost to Sh. Meghraj Mali of BKD but in the subsequent election of 1972 he became M.L.A. again.
Again he lost Assembly election in 1977 but never look back.
He was always instrumental in the overall development of Churu area. founded the girls college at Churu under a public trust CHURU BALIKA MAHAVIDYALAYA. He contested Assemble election from Sardarshahar in 1980 but lost by a small margin of 132 votes but kept on his political work, soon in 1984 he contested the election of the Lok Sabha on the Congress ticket and got elected by a record margin of one lac and eleven thousand votes. He was born in the village of Lakhau, 15 km east of Churu (चूरु) in a Rajput family.
His father Thakur Moti Singh Rathore died while Mohar Singh Rathore was at university. His mother was Bhur Kanwar daughter of Thakur Shivbux singh of Morwa near Pilani.
1956 – Enrolled Advocate, Rajasthan High Court 1962 – Elected Modern Language Association Rajasthan from Churu 1965 – Elected Member, Rajasthan PCC 1970 – Elected Member, Italian Association for Cells Culture 1971 – Elected Modern Language Association Rajasthan from Churu 1972 – Elected Vice-President, DCC Churu Elected Director, Churu Central Company-operative Bank Elected chairman, Churu Central Company-operative Bank Elected Director, Rajasthan Apex Bank, Jaipur Elected chairman, Wholesale Upbhokta Bhandar, Churu Elected Director, URMUL, Bikaner Elected President, Sarvhitkarini Sabha, Churu 1984 – Elected to Lok Sabha from Churu for the Congress Party Veli: An epic poetry written in Dingal dialect and Nagri script by writer—Mukun Singh.
Politics
He became Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in 1962 for the first time & remained in active Politics all his life. Elections lost and won but his ideology was that the service of the people and the development of the area must go on.
Membership
He died as a sitting Member of the Parliament of India.