Babulal Patodi

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| name = Babulal Patodi

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| birth_date = 15 June 1920

| birth_place = Sumtha, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

| death_date = 25 January 2012

| death_place = Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

| occupation = Freedom activist
Social worker

| children = Three sons and three daughters

| parents = Chogalalji Patodi

| awards = Padma Shri

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| restingplace = 84 Gumashta Nagar, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Babulal Patodi (1920-2012) was an Indian social worker and freedom activist.{{cite web | url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/patodi-passes-away/ | title=Patodi passes away | newspaper=Free Press Journal | date=2015 | accessdate=9 October 2015}} He was a senior member of the Indian National Congress{{cite web | url=http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/mp-veteran-congress-leader-babulal-patodi-passes-away_657274.html | title=Veteran Congress Leader Babulal Patodi passes away | publisher=Money Control | date=25 January 2012 | accessdate=9 October 2015}} and the president of the Indore Congress Committee from 1949–50 and 1953-54.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/urbanpoliticsini0000jone_v3u0 | url-access=registration | quote=Babulal Patodi. | title=Urban Politics in India: Area, Power, and Policy in a Penetrated System | publisher=University of California Press | date=1974 | accessdate=9 October 2015 | author=Rodney W. Jones | page=[https://archive.org/details/urbanpoliticsini0000jone_v3u0/page/420 420] | ISBN=9780520025455}} He also served as M.L.A. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri, in 1991.{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | accessdate=21 July 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }} He died on 25 January 2012, aged 92. A statue has been installed at top Gomatgiri hills in his honour.{{cite news | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/statues-of-the-living-divide-digambar-jains/29166/ | title=Statues of the living divide Digambar Jains | newspaper=Indian Express | date=24 April 2007 | accessdate=9 October 2015}}