Mumbai, 29 July : “Looking at the global circumstances, the society needs more people like Bal Apte, who live the ideals in real life”, said Sarsanghchalak Mohanji Bhagvat at the condolence meeting of Pro.Bal Apte here. “He was our personal philosopher guide friend, whose discipline, philosophy & principles impressed upon the ‘Karyakartas’ (social workers) like us” he further added.
The Condolence meeting held at Poddar College near Matunga here at evening on Sunday by the followers of late Pro.Bal Apte was attented by large gathering of the senior social & political workers and senior advocates & judges of Mumbai High Court. RSS sah-sarKaryavah (Jt. Gen Secretary) H. Dattatreyaji, former Loksabha speaker Manohar Joshi, ABVP National president Prof. Milind Marathe, BJP’s General Secretary (Org.) Ram Lal, RSS Konkan Prant Sanghachalak Bapusaheb Mokashi, AAWI president Adv. Rajiv Patil, Balasaheb’s nephew senior advocate Ram Apte and BJP Mumbai president Raj K Purohit were on stage.
Sarsanghchalak Mohan ji Bhagvat elaborated the qualities of Bal Apte in his speech. “When I started work as a ‘Pracharak’ (RSS Fulltimer), before I could meet him, I only heard about his fearful discipline & principles and was initially not daring to go before him”, remembered Bhagvat. “Although after meeting him, one could sense the golden heart behind his strong disciplinary nature. He was very straight forward & fearless speaker. He had daring to tell the truth to anybody he came across, he had earned that right thru his principled life.”
“After meeting him, we could sense his guardian nature. We had no afraid to accept our wrongs before him than others because of this guardian nature. Any human can develop his personality by hard work but the people like Bal Apte have some heavenly qualities which enhance their personality,” said Bhagvat while paying his tributes to Prof Apte. “When a person achieves heights, he tends to cut-off from the common people. But Bal Apte was an exception. Living simple life when you can afford anything is a very hard task now-a-days and Balasaheb has put forward an exceptional example of the same. To live like this, you must do great ‘Tapasya’,” Bhagvat added.
Bhagvat added further, “Its very difficult to have a great heart with the God-gifted creativity, the rear combination of which Prof. Apte had. Although we have lost the great soul, we can follow his footsteps in our life to achieve our national goal.” Bhagvat also remembered how Apte declined to become a minister in Morarji bhai Desai led Janata Govt post-emergency and chose to work for the organisation of ABVP. He became a Rajyasabha member only after the organisation decided about it.
Bhagvat called upon the workers to keep fresh Apte’s memories thru the hard work to achieve national goals, as “this would be the only tributes we can pay to the departed soul”. Balasaheb Apte never thought about his personal name & fame, but devoted his entire life to a great cause of nation building. He never thought about achievements – personal or organisational – but always remained resolute about the work-culture, as he believed that that’s the only thing which will build the nation, Bhagvat added. He reminded the gathering that “our work starts where the people like Balasaheb rest as we have to take the cause further.”
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