“Democracy does not reside in speeches but in actual practices of its votaries.”

— K. B. Hedgewar

quoted from Dr Rakesh Sinha: Hedgewar, for posterity, Indian Express, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rss-founder-kb-hedgewar-ideology-pranab-mukherjee-nagpur-event-5217892/

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