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Rajya Sabha.
Unfortunately, Pannalal died at a very
early age while a Member of that wing wing of Our
Parliament.
Another son of his, Shri Gobindlal Saraogi, did succeed in stepping into the shoes of his elder brother Pannalal as a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Council, in which, he continued till its abolition (1969).
One of
Mahadeolalji's grandsons' wives, the daughterin-law of late Pannalal Saraogi, and wife of the philanthropist, Shri Kamal Nayan Saraogi, Smt. Meenakshi Saraogi has distinguished herself as a business-lady, in recognition of which she has been awarded the national decoration Padmasree in the year 1992.
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national
Quite a few Seva Pratisthans have been. set up and being run by Mahadeolalji's sons and grandsons, in Rajgarh, his place of birth again an endeavour at revival of an ancient value of ours.
An endowment, further, has been created in the name of Mahadeolal Saraogi with the Rotary Club of Calcutta, the oldest of this side of the Suez, for conferring an Annual Award on eminent Social Worker(s) in the State of West Bengal. In the selection of such awards, religious denominations and political differences - all these are transcended. The First Year's Award (1991) was given away by Shri Jyoti Basu, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, to the noted Social Worker and Ex-Sheriff of Calcutta, Rusi Gimi, who had this last distinction in his illustrious life of action and service.
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