Biography of Mohan Bhagwat,Age,Education,Family,RSS Leader

Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat

Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat is the Sarsanghchalak of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh based in India. He was chosen as the successor to K. S. Sudarshan in March 2009. 

Born: 11 September 1950 (age 69 years), Chandrapur

Full name: Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat

Nationality: Indian

Education: Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Akola

Parents: Madhukar Rao Bhagwat, Malatibai Bhagwat.

Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat is a Maharashtrian Brahmin from Chandrapur, Maharasthra (former Bombay State). He comes from a family of RSS activists. His father Madhukar Rao Bhagwat, was the Karyavah (secretary) for the Chandrapur zone and later a Prant Pracharak (provincial promoter) for Gujarat. His mother Malati was a member of the RSS Women’s Wing.

Bhagwat completed his schooling from 'Lokmanya Tilak Vidyalaya' and then the first year of his BSc from the Janata College in Chandrapur. He graduated in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry from Government Veterinary College, Nagpur. He dropped out of his postgraduate course in Veterinary Sciences and became a pracharak (full-time promoter/worker) of the RSS towards the end of 1975.

In 2017, the state-run Animal and Fishery Sciences University awarded Mohan Bhagwat with an honorary doctor of science (DSc) degree during its convocation ceremony in Nagpur.