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Rajiv Dixit (30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010) was an Indian social activist, public speaker & an adherent critic of modern medicine.

He was an ardent promoter of swadeshi. He studied in IIT Kanpur.

Career

Dixit founded the "Azadi Bachao Andolan" (Save Freedom Movement) in the early 1990s as a campaign to protect Indian industries, at a time when multi-national corporations were increasing their presence in India as a part of a trend towards globalisation. An aide to Ramdev, Dixit served as the national secretary of Ramdev's anti-corruption organisation Bharat Swabhiman Andolan.

During his career as an activist, Dixit demanded decentralisation of the Indian taxation system, stating that the existing system was the core reason for bureaucratic corruption. He claimed that 80 percent of tax revenue was used to pay the salaries of politicians and bureaucrats and compared the modern budget system of the Indian government to the earlier British budget system in India.

Death

Dixit died on 30 November 2010 in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, due to alleged poisoning of his meals by foreign companies.

However, his death is a subject of controversy as no autopsy was performed, despite some of Dixit's followers being suspicious that the actual cause of death was poisoning. A Congress politician tried to malign Baba Ramdev as a possible suspect during their wider attempt of forging a Hindu terrorism narrative. But subsequent investigations by UPA and Supreme Court found malignant efforts on part of Congress workers to malign Baba Ramdev.

See also

• Khadi
• Khadi and Village Industries Commission
• List of unsolved deaths
• Make In India
• National Charkha Museum
• Sarvodaya
• Standup India
• Startup India
• Swadeshi Jagaran Manch
• Swaraj

References

1. ^ Kidwai, Rasheed (19 June 2016). "Baba's 'plan' that went bust". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
2. Team, ThePrint (3 May 2018). "The 'irresponsible,". ThePrint. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
3. "राजीव दीक्षित (पार्ट 1): राजीव दिक्षित जी ने विदेश में रहकर पीएचडी की पढ़ाई की थी". Firstpost Hindi. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
4. "रामदेव के साथ काम करने वाले राजीव दीक्षित की कहानी, जिनकी मौत को लोग रहस्यमय मानते हैं". LallanTop (in Hindi). Retrieved 7 June 2019.
5. "राजीव दीक्षित (पार्ट-2): जीनोने भारत में सारी करतूतों की पोल खोल के रख दी और विदेशी कंपनी ओके छक्के छुड़ाने वाले थे". Firstpost Hindi. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
6. ^ Kumaraswam, B. M. (2 December 2010), "Youthful crusader of Swadeshi", The New Indian Express, Shimoga
7. Priyanka P. Narain (5 April 2009), And then, there will be a revolution, Mint
8. Raju Bist (29 June 2004), "A price too high for Indian farmers", Asia Times, Mumbai
9. "Decentralise taxes, says Azadi Bachao Andolan supporter", The Times of India, 9 March 2003
10. "Ramdev alleges conspiracy to link him to death of an associate". The Economic Times. 9 September 2012.

External links

• RAJIV DIXIT UNOFFICIAL WEB PAGE

• 1967 births
• 2010 deaths
• Activists from Uttar Pradesh
• Swadeshi activists
• Unsolved deaths
• Writers from Allahabad