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"I never imagined an illiterate like me will have such an opportunity so I cried when I entered Parliament ."
"I thank you all for the support during the primaries, although things didin't turn out like how we expected but that's just it. Life can be unfair at but trust me we have fought a good fight and we couldn't have done it without each and everyone of you in the constituency ."
"I would wish to demand the resignation of the constituency chairman. He has no moral right to suspend me from the party. Some of us will not look on while others try to destroy what we have collectively built as a party. I am sad about the turn of events and I feel my work has been a vein ."
"I am coming back like kakai to take the seat."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.