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'''Balkrishna Ganesh Khaparde''' (1882–1968)<ref name=bookPateriya /> was leader of [[Swaraj Party]] from [[Amravati]], India. He was lawyer by profession like his father [[Ganesh Shrikrishna Khaparde]] who was a close ally of [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]].<ref>{{ cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HUo4AAAAIAAJ&dq=b+g+khaparde&pg=PA340 |title=Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-1922 |author=Judith M. Brown |year=1972 |page=340|isbn=9780521098731 }}</ref>

He belonged to ‘Tilak School of Thought’ and as a prominent leader in Swarajya Party. He was twice elected to the Second and Third Provincial [[Central Provinces Legislative Council]] in 1923 & 1927.<ref name=bookPateriya>{{cite book|last=Pateriya|first=Raghaw Raman|title=Provincial legislatures and the national movement: a study in interaction in ...|year=1991|publisher=Northern Book Centre|location=New Delhi|isbn=81-85119-58-9|page=203 & 216 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWEkVfiIo_gC&dq=buldhan&pg=PA214}}</ref> He was minister of [[Central Provinces and Berar]] state.

He used to write under the pen name ''Baba Bharti'' in Marathi Magazine Prasad published from Pune and wrote the book ‘From Science to Samadhi’.

He was the chief trustee of the Badrinath Temple and as such he had to walk down 120 miles from Dehradun to the interior of the Himalayas to open the gates of [[Badrinath Temple]] after winter every year. His name is still adorned in the temple.

In 1968, he courted death by Prayopaweshan, meaning to liberate immortal soul from mortal body by voluntary fast unto death.
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://netajibosemysteryrevealed.org/me/ |title=About author |author=Dr Suresh Padhye}}</ref>

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