Mahavir Tyagi
Mahavir Tyagi (31 December 1899 – 22 May 1980) was a prominent independence fighter and parliamentarian from Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand) India.
Quotes
[edit]- When the Chinese do, in fact, usurp these ‘sparsely inhabited frontier mountain areas’ in Ladakh, Panditji, as we shall soon see, says, ‘Not a blade of grass grows there...’ Mahavir Tyagi, the MP, I am told, remarked, ‘Here, look at my head’—he was quite bald—‘not a blade of grass grows here. To whom is Jawaharlal gifting my head?’
- Attributed in Arun Shourie - Self-Deception _ India's China Policies_ Origins, Premises, Lessons-Harper Collins (2013) ch 8
