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A true Philanthropic : Rajarshi Tandon

What have we learnt being an Allahabadi? Its time to disconnect from Gandhi family and learn from real leaders from the great city of Allahabad.....

Rajarshi Tandon, if you ask any person who belongs to Allahabad  he would say, Yes, there is an open University and a PD Tandon Park in Katra. Thats it, this is all we know about him....Shame!

Following excepts from wikipedia may explain what was he in reality, who he was and what being a philanthropic meant to him :

Rajarshi Purushottam Das Tandon was at the time a Member of Parliament. 

Once, when he went to collect his salary cheque in the Parliament Office, he asked the clerk there to transfer the amount directly to a “Public Service Fund”. 


The officials over there were pleasantly surprised by his generosity. One of his colleagues standing nearby said: “There are hardly four hundred rupees as your allowance for the whole month. And you are donating the entire amount for social service?” 


Tandon ji humbly replied – “You see, I have seven sons and all are earning sufficiently to raise their families; each one sends me one hundred rupees per month. I spend only about rupees three to four hundred from that and the rest goes to some philanthropic causes. 


This allowance as a Member-of-Parliament is again extra for some one like me. Why should I save it for myself or my family? It was because of this natural austerity and detachment from selfish possessions that he was called a “Rajarshi”.


Can we expect this from todays' politicians? can we expect anything near to this from young gen India?

Think....Think....................

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