Social activist Swami Agnivesh passed away at 80

Social activist and former Haryana MLA Swami Agnivesh passed away at the age of 80 at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Delhi.

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Agnivesh was elected to Haryana Legislative Assembly in 1977 and served as a Cabinet Minister for Education in the state in 1979.

He founded Bonded Labour Liberation Front in 1981 and worked against bonded labour.

Swami Agnivesh also served as president of the Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha (World Council of Arya Samaj), the highest international body of the Arya Samaj movement.

He served as the chairperson of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery from 1994 to 2004.