Yuva Bharati / March 2018 / 7K
endra workers all over India and Patriots and
adherents of Hindu Dharma rejoice at the honour
done to Kendra President Ma. P. Parameswaranji. He
has been chosen for Padma Vibhushan award for the 2018
Republic day.
Born in Shertalai in Alappuzha district of Kerala in 1927,
Shri Parameswaranji completed his college education in S.P.
College of Changanassery and Tiruvanathapuram University
College taking his B.A., (Hons) degree in history.
On the advice of Pujya Guruji Golwalkar he became an R.S.S.
Pracharak in 1950. He became the Organizing Secretary, All
India General Secretary and the Vice President of Bharatiya
Jana Sangh. He underwent imprisonment during the emergency
1975 – 77. In 1977 he left active politics and dedicated himself
to whole time writing, speaking and constructive work. He
became the Director of Deen Dayal Research Institute Delhi
and served that Institute for four years.
In 1982, he returned to Kerala, founded the National Research
Centre, Bharatiya Vichar Kendra with its Head Quarters at
Tiruvananthapuram.
He became the Vice President and then the President of
Vivekananda Rock Memorial Committee and Vivekananda
Kendra, Kanyakumari. He used to speak to our youth on
Swami Vivekananda and his National and spiritual ideals.
He is a patron of Gita Swadhyaya Samiti which takes the
message of the Gita to the younger generation.
He was associated with the Kalady Advaita Ashrama and its
founder Swami Aghamanandaji. Sri. P. Parameswaranji is also
well connected with Ramakrishna Math.
He has great faith in the Gita concept of Selfless work and its
efficacy in solving the society’s problems. In 1998 he started
the Gita Decade. The Trichur Gita Sangamam involved 2000
youths. He organized in the year 2000, a National Seminar
on Gita’s answers to contemporary problems and published
the research papers as a useful volume. 1500 professors,
researchers and thinkers participated in the seminar led by the