Facts: - affiliation: president , shramik mukti dal - politicalorganization: magaowa , kapad kamgar sanghatana , mukti sangarsh movement - caption: bharat patankar - spouse: gail omvedt 1976 - awards: dalit krutadnyata puraskar mitra puraskar arun limaye yuva jagar puraskar samajik - birth date: 5 september 1949 - name: bharat patankar - nationality: indian - image: bharatp.jpg - birth place: kasegaon , maharashtra , india - religion: buddhism - alma mater: azad vidyalay miraj medical college shivaji university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of bharat patankar .
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bharat patankar -lrb- marathi : '' '' -rrb- is a leading activist -lrb- cofounder and president -rrb- of the left wing shramik mukti dal and of the peasant movement in maharashtra .bharat patankar is an activist intellectual who has worked for almost 40 years in movements of '' workers , farmers , dam evictees , agricultural laborers , the drought eradication movement , alternative cultural movement , women 's liberation movement , anti-sez and coal-based power plant movement based on alternative energy proposals , rights of farmers on windmills , and radical anti-caste movements . ''he is married to writer and activist , gail omvedt .