Swami Agnivesh was a social activist and a religious Arya Samaj Leader and fought against bonded and child labor, for women’s rights and for religious tolerance.

New Delhi: A Veteran Arya Samaj leader, crusader against bonded labor, and Social activist Swami Agnivesh (80) died after having a heart attack Friday afternoon at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Delhi. He was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday, Swami Agnivesh was undergoing treatment for liver cirrhosis and had been on ventilator support after multi-organ failure.

According to a statement by the hospital, his condition began deteriorating this evening and he suffered a heart attack at 6 PM. Doctors tried to resuscitate him but failed, and he was declared dead at 6.30 PM.

Swami Agnivesh was a social activist and a religious Arya Samaj Leader and fought against bonded and child labor, for women’s rights and for religious tolerance.

In July 2018 Swami Agnivesh was brutally attacked, allegedly by BJP Yuva Morcha workers chanting “Jai Sri Ram”, in Jharkhand’s Pakur, where he was supporting tribal communities’ protest against land acquisition by the state. However, The BJP denounced it and insisted the attackers were not associated with the party.

A month later he was attacked again, this time in Delhi while he was on his way to pay his last respects to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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