K Narahari.
Bengaluru: Veteran RSS man K Narahari, who represented the Bangalore Teachers’ constituency in the Legislative Council for 18 years, died on Wednesday. He was 93.
A resident of Srirampura, Narahari’s last rites were conducted at the Harishchandra Ghat on Wednesday afternoon.
Top BJP and RSS leaders, including former chief minister B S Yediyurappa and Sah Sarkaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale, condoled Narahari’s death.
Narahari was born in Mysuru on May 25, 1932. After earning a mechanical engineering degree from BMS College of Engineering in 1958, Narahari went to Kodagu where he worked as an RSS Pracharak.
He was a mechanical engineering lecturer for 24 years. He also taught at the RSS’ Officers’ Training Camp (OTC).
He rose to become Kshetreeya Karyavah in the RSS and served as president of The Mythic Society.
As an MLC (1984-2002), Narahari was known for his speeches on education in the Legislative Council. In one interview, Narahari recalled that his speech on minority appeasement earned praise from the likes of J H Patel.
“Both Christianity and Islam failed to unite mankind. Even Marxism has failed to unite the world. Ultimately, it is nationalism which
binds a country together and not religion,” Narahari had said.