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Bharat Patankar | |
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 Bharat Patankar | |
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| Born | 5 September 1949 Kasegaon, Sangli Maharashtra, India |
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| Parent(s) | Indumati Babuji Patankar Babuji Patankar |
| Alma mater | Azad Vidyalay Miraj Medical College Shivaji University |
| Awards | Dalit Mitra Puraskar Arun LImaye Yuva Jagar Puraskar Samajik Krutadnyata Puraskar |
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Bharat Patankar (Marathi: भारत पाटणकर) is a leading activist (co-founder and President) of the left wing of Shramik Mukti Dal and of the peasant movement in Maharashtra. Bharat Patankar is an activist who has worked for almost 40 years in movements of workers, farmers, dam evictees, agricultural labourers, the drought eradication movement, alternative cultural movement, women's liberation movement, anti-SEZ and coal-based power plant movement based on alternative energy proposals, rights of farmers on windmills, and radical anti-caste movements. He was married to writer and activist, Gail Omvedt until her death in 2021.