Tributes To Late Dr Narendra Dabholkar . Born: 01 Nov 1945 · India Died: 20 Aug 2013 · Pune, India Wife : Shaila Education: Government Medical College, Miraj Timeline 1945: Dabholkar was born on 1 November 1945 to Achyut and Tarabai, being the youngest of ten siblings, the eldest was the late educationalist, Gandhian and socialist Devdatta Dabholkar. 1989: He was the founder-president of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), an organization set up to eradicate superstition in 1989. 2010: In 2010, Dabholkar made several failed attempts to get an anti-superstition law enacted in the state of Maharashtra. 2013: He had taken on Asaram Bapu in March 2013 over an incident during Holi in Nagpur, when Bapu and his followers used drinking water from tankers brought from the Nagpur Municipal Corporation to celebrate the festival. 2013: A couple of weeks before his death on 6 August 2013, Dabholkar had complained in a press conference that the bill had not been discussed despite being tabled in seven sessions of the state assembly. 2013: Triggered by his murder on 20 August 2013, the pending Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance was promulgated in the state of Maharashtra, four days later. 2013: Narendra Dabholkar died on August 20, 2013 in Pune, India. More on Wikipedia
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