Activist DR Chaudhary, who fought towards honor killing, died of Kovid

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Professor DR Choudhary, a famous social activist from Haryana, who defended ‘alternative marriage’ and fought towards ‘honour killing’, succumbed to post-Covid problems on the intervening evening of Tuesday and Wednesday. He was cremated in Rohtak on Wednesday.

Choudhary’s youthful son, Ashwini Choudhary, a movie producer in Mumbai, instructed The Indian Express that his father would have turned 86 on June 11.

Swaraj India activist Rajiv Godara recalled, “Dr Choudhary strongly defended alternative marriages even in instances when such {couples} face the wrath of khap panchayats over the problem of inter-caste alliances and marriages in the identical village. Was mendacity. He at all times fought towards casteism and authorized the inter-caste marriage of each his sons.

Echoing comparable sentiments, Chaudhary’s shut aide SP Singh mentioned, “Chowdhary always insisted that Haryana has seen a lot of progress on the economic front, but a lot more needs to be done on the social and cultural front in the state. “

Godara mentioned by way of articles in his weekly newspaper “Ping”, Chowdhury was instrumental in exposing the “Mahm scandal” – during which practically half a dozen individuals had been killed in election violence in 1990. The occasion was finally cancelled. By-election Godara remembers how Choudhury was arrested by the police for exposing corruption in a sequence of articles in “Ping” within the early 90s, however was launched after protests by intellectuals.

“In this case, Choudhary was falsely implicated in a criminal case. He refused to apply for bail, but amid mounting public pressure, the authorities released him from jail,” mentioned Mahesh Kumar, Chaudhary’s son-in-law.

According to Kumar, Choudhury was a staunch follower of Buddhism and had reviewed a number of literary books on Buddhism. To intensify his marketing campaign for social reforms, Choudhary together with outstanding social activists and intellectuals had additionally fashioned the Haryana Insaaf Society.

Choudhary in his 2007 ebook “Haryana at Crossroads: Problems and Prospects” wrote extensively on the problem of Khap Panchayats, the caste politics of Haryana and the disaster within the agriculture sector. A former Delhi University professor, Choudhary additionally served because the chairman of the Haryana Public Service Commission and a member of the Haryana Administrative Reforms Commission.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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