Vishwanath Rao Yadav Tamaskar was born in the village Jhal of Bemetara Block of Durg on July 7th 1901. His education was completed in Durg, Bilaspur and went to Allahabad to study law. Here, he came in contact with Gandhiji and took part in various movements. In year 1921 to boycott program a success, he left his law studies and returned to his village. After the end of the movement, he restarted his studies and took up the profession of law from Nagpur in 1927, but his heart was absorbed in patriotism, so he jumped in the civil movement in 1930. Alike the salt law, there was a satyagraha to break the forest law in Chhattisgarh. While leading this satyagraha, he was arrested, for not making an apology for his action, he was fined heavily and given one year rigorous imprisonment by British Government. Many of his property and library were auctioned for not paying the fine. Tamaskar did not bow down to this tyranny of the regime, but as soon as he was released from jail, he again jumped into the movement. He again went to jail for 9 months while participating in the liquor prohibition movement. At the same time, the government took away his right to practice from him. This policy of the British rule was to crush the patriots, but the people of country made such patriots sit in their heads and eyes. Tamaskar ji was elected the chairman of Bemetara Council from 1930 to 1933. In 1933, member of Durg District Council and from 1937 to 1940 adorned the post of its chairman. In the elections held in 1937 to form the provincial government, he was elected representative of the Dharasabha (Vidhan Sabha) of Madhya Pradesh from Bemetara region. In 1939, in protest during the Second World War, like all Congress members, resigned from the membership of the Legislative Assembly and participated as a Satyagrahi in the Individual Satyagraha of 1941 conducted by Gandhiji and the Quit India Movement of 1942. Together, he was jailed for about five years. Meanwhile, he also took an active part in the program of social reform and remained associated with the untouchables program. In the first general election of 1952, he won the election from Bemetara assembly constituency as an independent candidate and in 1957 became a member of the Legislative Assembly from Durg city on the ticket of Socialist Party. Due to efforts of Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Pt. Dwarka Prasad Mishra, you accepted to contest the 1967 elections and entered the Parliament after winning. He kept on raising the voice of the people and farmers of Chhattisgarh to the Parliament of the country. Perhaps the formation of the state of Chhattisgarh would have happened much earlier, but destiny picked up this hardworking Matiputra from our midst on 2nd September 1959. The soil of Chhattisgarh will always be indebted to such belligerent son. The entire college family feels proud for our college is named by the Chhattisgarh Government in the name of such a diligent and loving patriot.
