Rameshwar Yadav

Rameshwar Yadav was an Indian politician and activist from Shahabad district (now called Bhojpur), India. He was one of the founder member of Triveni Sangh.Yadav was popularly known as Sadhu Ji in among the people. Rameshwar Yadav organized a torchlight rally from Anaith village (Bahiro Lakh) near Bhojpur which concluded with a meeting at Ramna Maidan and fight for a Backward caste farmers and workers participated in large numbers in this rally.[1][2][3]

Rameshwar Yadav
Kranti Park with statues of Jagdish Prasad, Rameshwar Yadav (second from left), Ram Naresh Ram, Jauhar (Subrata Dutta) and Vinod Mishra
Personal details
BornVillage- Ekwaari, Shahabad district (now called Bhojpur), India
Died14 January 1975
Sona Tola in Sahar Shahabad district (now called Bhojpur), India
Cause of deathEncounter by Bihar Police
Political partyIndian People's Front
CPIML Liberation
Education7th Pass ( drop out from School)
OccupationDancer
Activist
dacoits
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Early life

Ramnaresh Yadav was born in a middle farmer’s family at Ekvari in Sahar, Bhojpur. After studying up to 7th Class, he left school and at first joined a dance group. But his hatred towards upper caste landlords turned the spirited Rameshwar into a rebel and he joined a gang of dacoits as a result of which he had to undergo a long jail sentence. The waves of the peasants’ struggle in the latter half of the brought a great change in his life. He came into contact with Jagdish Mahto and became the most prominent leader of the Bhojpur peasants’ struggle.[4]

Slogan

Dukhiyan ke Tu Dukh Mitwal Veer Putra Doman ke (its means he was Hungary son of his father name Doman and others are called him as a brave son).[5]

Death

Rameshwar was martyred in an encounter with the police at Sona Tola in Sahar Bhojpur on 14 January 1975.[6][7]

Kranti Park in Arrah

The 20th anniversary of the death of Vinod Mishra a park in Arrah, Bihar in memory of the Bhojpur revolutionaries was dedicated to the public. The park named Kranti Park includes Jagdish Prasad, Rameshwar Yadav, Ram Naresh Ram, Jauhar (Subrata Dutta) and Vinod Mishra and is a memorial to the revolutionary movement that transformed the social and political landscape of Bhojpur and Bihar.

The Kranti Park is also a public space open. While dozens of memorials to revolutionary martyrs exist in rural Bhojpur, Kranti Park is the first public memorial of its kind in the city of Arrah.

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