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Dayanand Nene - Political Activist and Analyst

Profession:

Event Management and PR professional. Proprietor of Righteous Events and PR. Doing turnkey events for Corporates and occasions. Undertake corporate surveys for brand launch, pre and post election surveys, exit polls.

For PR assignments, work related to Central and State Govt/PSUs.

Political and Social activity:

Political analyst and activist of the BJP since past 25 years. Has been the Press Secretary of BJP Mumbai. Was member of the Scam Expose Committee of the party. Has led public agitations like opposing American economic sanctions after the Pokhran 2 nuclear tests, food price hikes, corruption etc.

Very active in the Consumer field and is the National Secretary of the Consumer Protection Service Council (regd NGO). Working to create awareness amongst the consumers regarding their rights and responsibilities. He has tackled many cases of overpricing by Hotels and Restaurants, Food Adulteration and issues related to weights and measures.

Nene is the President of Righteous Foundation (NGO) & Alert Citizens Forum of India (ACF). ACF is a platform of civic minded and socially consious people working for betterment of the society, safeguarding mangroves, exposing civic corruption, addressing aspirations of the common man by making representations to the Central and State Govt about their problems and seeking redressal.

Through his other two organisations - "Small Investors Forum" for giving investment related guidance to small investors and "Sahakarsutra"- for guidance to resolve issues and problems faced by Co-op Housing Societies - Dayanand Nene is doing excellent work in different strata of society. He runs three popular blogs for online guidance to people:

www.sahakarsutra.blogspot.com

www.smallinvestorforum.blogspot.com

www.casadevalaya.blogspot.com

(Casa Devalaya is for the spiritual minded people).

His personal blog dayanandnene.blogspot.com is widely followed.

Dayanand Nene was also a member of the Film Censor Board.

He has also authored 5 books:

• Modi's Gujarat - Road to development

• Cooperative Banking - Concepts and functioning

• Do's and Don'ts for Investors

• How to detect Food Adulteration

• Beware of MLM scams.

Dayanand Nene had also successfully run Thane's first Advanced Locality Management Group (ALM) - Saket Parisar ALM.