Purushottam Mavalankar

Purushottam Ganesh Mavalankar (3 August 1928, Ahmedabad – 14 March 2002, Ahmedabad) was an Indian political scientist, educationist, and an independent Member of Parliament for two consecutive terms.

Purushottam Mavalankar in Ahmedabad (1995).

Mavalankar was son of the first speaker of the Lok Sabha, Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar. In 1972, he was elected to the 5th Lok Sabha in a by-election from Ahmedabad constituency in Gujarat state. In 1977, he was re-elected to the 6th Lok Sabha from Gandhinagar in Gujarat on Janata Party's ticket. He lost from Gandhinagar in 1980 election. Mavalankar died on 14 March 2002.[1]

He was also the author of the book No Sir, which consisted his parliamentary speeches during Emergency.[2][3]

Harold Laski Institute

Purushottam Ganesh Mavalankar (Anna Saheb) studied under the tutelage of Harold Laski in England and was the founder of the Harold Laski Institute of Political Science in Ahmedabad in 1954. In its heyday, the institute had several luminaries as guest speakers.

The institute also published a vast array of journals and books on political science.[4]

Protest against Emergency

Purushottam Mavalankar was an independent MP when Indira Gandhi imposed a state of national emergency. While opposition MPs either boycotted the parliament session on 23 July or were jailed, Mavalankar was not arrested because of his family's stature (his father, Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha). Mavalankar attended the parliamentary session and protested against the emergency.[5]

References
  1. "Ex-MP Mavlankar Dead". The Tribune. 16 March 2002. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  2. No, sir. Being the collection of 24 speeches (With background notes) in the Lok Sabha [House of the People] (Between July 21, 1975 and November 5, 1976) during the internal emergency in India. Sannishtha Prakashan. January 1979.
  3. Ramagundam, Rahul (2022). The Life and Times of George Fernandes. Penguin Random House India. p. 258. ISBN 978-0670092888.
  4. "List of publications by the Harold Laski Institute of Political Science, Ahmedabad". Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  5. "A'bad MP up in arms - The Times of India June 25, 2008".


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