Thakur Madan Singh Danta was Jagirdar of Danta, the second largest jagir in Sikar district. Madan Singh, an octogenerian, is educated upto matriculation from Mayo college, Ajmer. He was thrice member of state assembly, once he won as an independent candidate, and twice as nominee of Jan Sangh and Ram Rajya Parishad and once he lost election. Madan Singh has been known as an admirer of traditional values of chivalry, honesty and caste hierarchy.His jagir had 45 revenue villages under its jurisdiction 43 villages are in Rajasthan and 2 villages in Madhya pradesh. He was also served as Captain in the Sawai Man Guards, and later served in the Rajendra Hazari Guards, and his estate of Danta was in Shekhawati region of Jaipur princely state.
Most princely states were ruled by Rajputs, and after merger with independent India, it was natural for these ex-rulers to have a say in the political developments of their states. But the Congress party was not interested in sharing power and prime minister Nehru had threatened to withdraw the Privy Purse if any member of Royalty stood for election. Some of Nehru's measures, like the Hindu code bill, also alienated the conservative population of the princely states.
In response the Ram Rajya Parishad was formed by Swami Karpatri ji and Thakur Madan Singh Danta. Thakur Madan Singh was President of Ram Rajya Parishad. In their manifesto, the Ram Rajya Parishad promised:
Right to bear arms
Right to own property
Formation of Akhand Bharat
Protection of Hindu shastra laws
Protection of Cows
Compensation for land taken away by government.
Mostly the Rajpoot rulers had an inborn loathing for politics and a natural instinct for serving in the army. But Hanwant Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur was then only 24 years and peeved at the promises to Jodhpur state broken by Congress. He formed his own party in the Marwar region, and made an alliance with the Ram Rajya Parishad and Jan Sangh known as the Samyukta Dal. It was predicted that Congress, which ruled India and also ran the interim government of Rajasthan, would easily sweep the state elections. Local bodies like the Marwar Kisaan Sabha merged with the Congress on the eve of the elections. Hanwant Singh was undeterred and gave a new life and focus to the Ram Rajya Parishad.
The Maharaja's party swept the Marwar region, and the Ram Rajya Parishad did well in the other parts of Rajasthan. But just before the results were announced the Maharaja died in a mysterious crash of his private plane. Sabotage was suspected by the Jodhpur people who rioted and came for the Congressman Vyas, who had lost the election in Jodhpur to Hanwant Singh.
Had Maharaja Hanuwant Singh lived, he would have taken the Ram Rajya Parishad to victory in the other parts of Rajasthan, and could have even posed a challenge to the Nehru Congress at the center. But because of Hanwant Singh's death this became a mere dream and the Ram Rajya Parishad dwindled down over the years and finally the anti-Congress forces rallied around the Swatantra Party, this time under the leadership of the Royal Family of Jaipur.
Thakur Madan Singh of Danta continued to lead the Ram Rajya Parishad as president. Thakur had to sell his land to finance the Ram Rajya Parishad, which had no other source of funds than contributions of its own members.
After independence he founded the Bhooswami Sangh to protect the interests of the jagirdars.
In May, 1955, when Shri Madan Singh of Danta was President of the Rajasthan Bhooswami Sangh, he called the Annual session of the Sangh at his residence namely "Danta House" situated in Jaipur. The session commenced on May 30, 1955 and lasted for five days. During this period a number of meetings were held in which programmes and questions of policies were discussed. Object of the session was to organise and consolidate the Sangh. A large number of Bhooswamis and other volunteers were, accordingly summoned from various parts of Rajasthan and accommodated at Danta House and at other places in Jaipur. Funds were collected by Shri Madan Singh to finance the activities of the Sangh. Messing arrangements for the participants were made at the Danta House. In the aforesaid meetings, Shri Madan Singh took the most prominent part. The gist of the speeches delivered by him was to appeal to the jagirdars to lend support, both in men and money, to the Sangh and to incite them to defy law and disturb public peace and order, even by resorting to acts of violence. In the meetings on June 2 and 5, 1955, he advocate the creation of a religious State in Rajasthan as opposed to the secular State laid down in the Constitution of India, The Sukhadia Ministry was asked to quit within a period of three days and the audience was incited to open violence under the garb of Satyagrah. An agitation was, later on, organised at Jaipur under his guidance and supervision on which occasion a number of cyclostyled leaf-lets captioned 'ran Bheri' meaning 'call for battle' were prepared and distributed mostly at Danta House under his instructions. In Ran Bheri No. 2, an open challenge was throne to the Government in the following words - "these scoundrels of democracy have sucked the blood of the people and we shall never tolerate them setting on the throne of Bhagwan Ram. " Most of the other Ran Bheris were also of a similarly provocative character defaming the Government and officials and preaching violence. On June 12, 1955, over 600 Rajputs assembled at Danta House from where an effigy of the Rajasthan Government was taken out and burnt on the main road near Chaupar Manak Chowk. As a result of the inflammatory speeches delivered by and incitement given to Bhooswamis to resort to violence, public order was disturbed and sec. 144 Cr. P. C. had to be promulgated on June 13, 1955 in Jaipur City. After the promulgation of sec. 144, a meeting was held in Danta House at about 4 p. m. the same day under the chairmanship of Thakur Madan Singh. In his presidential speech he incited the jagirdars to violence and exhorted them to retain their jagirs with the help of their swords. It was also decided in the meeting that the order u/s 144 Cr. P. C. should be defied. As a result of the above, batches of Bhooswamis collected in Johari Bazar and shouted the following slogans on June 14, 1955. Ek Dhakke Aur Do, Sukhadia Sarkar Tor Do One Two Three Four, Congress Haram Khor. On the arrest of these batches by the Police, a meeting was again held at Danta House at about 8 15 p. m. which was attended by about 500 Bhooswamis. In this meeting also Thakur Madan Singh exhorted the audience to be firm. His concluding remarks were that they had taken their jagirs by shedding their blood and would not part with them. It was no longer considered desirable to let things drift on and Thakur Madan Singh was ordered to be detained under Preventive Detention Act by the then District Magistrate, Jaipur. Later on Thakur Madan Singh expressed a desire to call off the agitation and to advise his followers to represent their grievances to the Government in a constitutional manner. On this Thakur Madan Singh was released from detention. The agitation was given up; The Government responded by releasing all those who had been convicted and were confined in Jails, and by withdrawing the pending prosecutions against others. But soon afterwards, Thakur Madan Singh again started propaganda for defiance of the lawful orders of the Government, and has ever since been acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order which would be evident from the following Immediately after his release, a meeting on behalf of the Bhooswami Sangh was held on July 21, 1955, at Danta House in which Thakur Madan Singh delivered a speech stating therein that the settlement had been achieved with the consent of the leaders of All India Kshatriya Mahasabha and other prominent workers. In case the Government does not fulfil the demands of the Sangh, the agitation should be started again from village to village, he said. A procession of Bhooswamis is was taken out on July 27,1952. from Danta House to Chaupar Manak Chowk where a public meeting was held in which Thakur Madan Singh accused the C. I. D. and Police for their misbehavior with the Satyagrahis and once more exhorted the audience to re-start the agitation vigorously from village to village in case the Government did not fulfil their demands. He presided over the meeting of the Working Committee of Bhooswami Sangh held at Danta House on August 5 and 6 at which discussions centered round the alleged given to them by the Government and the letter received from the Revenue Secretary asking them to intimate names of two Bhooswami Sangh representatives for the Committee appointed by the Government to settle their demands. They, however, decided not to do so as the composition of the Committee was not to their satisfaction. Not content with his anti law and order activities in Rajasthan, Thakur Madan Singh visited Ratlam on 21st August, 1955, in connection with the Madhya Bharat Rajput Sewa Sangh Conference. He addressed the representatives and members of the Working Committee the same day, wherein he stated that Satyagrah was the only panacea for their ills. Addressing a public meeting under the auspices of the District Bhooswami Sangh held at Sikar on 21st September, 1955, Thakur Madan Singh openly preached defiance of lawful orders and violence against the Government. Some relevant portions of this speech are given hereunder : - Muje Sikar aye huye char panch sal ho gaye halanki yah meri janam bhumi hai. Main ap logon se maafi chahta hun. Main is arse me Udaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Dungarpur, ki taraf raha aur uske bad Jaipur raha aur is daure me mene Bhoo-swamio ka sanghthan banaya. Ab bhaashno se kam chalne vala nahi hai. Laaton ke bhoot baaton se nahi maante. Isliye sanghthan mazabut karna chahiye. . . . . . . . . . . . . Mene aj Sukhadia se bhi keh diya ki ham jagire is tarh se nahi sopengey, chahe kuch bhi ho. . . . . . . . . . . Congress wale yaha prachaar karte he ki jagiri khatam kar dengye. Ham yuheen jagire nahi dengye. Jaise inke purkhon ne dee ho. Ham jagiren beizzati ke sath nahi dena chahate. Jaise ki dusre pranto me hui hai. Muje yah batlaye ki jagire khatam hone ke bad janta ko kya fayada hua. Aaj tak kisi bhi Congressi ne mujeh iska jabab nahi diya. Jagire bhi khatam karte hei aur muaavza bhi nahi milega. Tehsildar Sahib kisaano se kaheta hai ki jagirdaro ko lagan mat do. Meh bhi hukam deta hun ki tum log jagiri ka charge mat do. Jagire to lele our khane ko kuch nahi de. Mene yah kabhi nahi kaha hai ki Maan Singh dakoo bane magar jab chottey bhooswamio ko khane ko muaavza nahi milega to bhukha marta hua daakoo banega yah sahi cheez hai, Bhukha marta kaya nahi karta Jab ki hamne telephone dwara Jaipur se Tehsildar saheb Sikar ko yah kahelvaya diya tha ki kisaano ko aap parche taksim na kare phir bhi unhone parche taksim kar diye. Agar Tehsildar Sahib nahi manange to ham andolan karange, Ya to yahi rahenge ya Sikar ke rajput he rahenge. Tehsildar Sahib kal person tak chale jayenge. . . . . . . . . Rajasthan ke rajput ab chup nahi baithenge. Ham hamara manter padhenge. . . . . "
Thakur Madansingh directed the workers of the Sangh to collect funds and recruit volunteers for restarting the agitation in case the Government did not fulfil their demands. Workers have since been acting accordingly and establishing branches of Bhooswami Sangh at various places in Rajasthan. To train the volunteers of the Bhooswami Sangh for defiance of law and order, a Bhooswami Sangh and Kshatriya Yuwak Sangh camp was organised at Sirohi on October 23, 1955, which was also attended by Thakur Madan Singh. On October 25, six batches of volunteers (20 each) were imparted instructions in the method of staging a demonstration during an agitation. They were also given practical training in the method of firing with muzz loading guns and in the ways of counter-acting Lathi charges by the Police. Lectures were delivered regarding action to be taken by agitators in case a prohibitory order u/s 144 Cr. P. C. was promulgated Mock schemes were conducted in which volunteers acted as Collector, Superintendent of Police, Sub-Inspector of Police etc. On the next morning, the volunteers took out an effigy of Sukhadia in a procession reciting "ram Nam Satya Hai " and burnt the same near a tank about 200 yards away from Sarveshwar temple. A mock demonstration was then shown firing shots with a 12 bore gun at supposed S. P. and S. L and pelting stones at the Police during a mock lathi charge. Meetings (2000-2500) of the jagir-dars were held at Mitrapura and Bonli (Sawai Madhpur) on November 18 and 19 respectively wherein Thakur Madansingh instigated the Jagirdars not to surrender their jagirs on any account and to dishonour the congressmen, when they visit their area in election campaigns. On November 1, 1955, Sir Madansingh while addressing a meeting of Bhooswami Sangh held at village Toda Bhim (Sawai Madhopur), criticised the bonafides of the present Government and appealed to the jagirdars not to hand over their jagirs to the Government at any cost and asked them to keep themselves in readiness for the Satyagrah which was to be launched shortly. On November 22, at Danta House, Jaipur, a camera meeting of Bhooswami Sangh was had in which it was decided that another Satyagarh should be launched. In this connection, Thakur Madansingh visited Sikar on the 2nd of December, 1955 and after meeting Colonel Hanumansingh and other members of Bhooswami Sangh left for Jhunjhunu side.
Later on in the 1960s, he was also President of Jan Sangh. In the early 1960s he came under the influence of Maharani Gayatri Devi, and fought 1972 assembly election as a nominee of Swatantra Party. Gayatri Devi was the unquestioned leader of the Swatrantra Party alongwith Maha Rawal Laxman Singh and other noted jagirdars and princes of Rajasthan. As a leader of Rajputs and a champion of the interests of former Jagirdars Thakur Madan Singh carved out a place for himself in the early 1950s. He met Jawaharlal Nehru to discuss the problem of rehabilitation of Jagirdars and Zamindars. He was firmly of the view that Jagirdari was a system of administration/governance rather than a caste-based system for exploitation of the people. A number of Jats were appointed as Mukhias and Choudharies and were granted adequate compensation on land revenue in lieu of their services to the rulers. People from lower and un-touchable castes were also appointed as messangers, revenue officials, and security guards etc. The people engaged in literary and priestly activities were honoured and gifted with free land-grants. Thakur Madan Singh Danta was a soldier who fought in the second world war. Despite his traditional outlook, he was a staunch nationalist. At the time of India's war against China in 1962, impulsively he declared in a public meeting at Jaipur which was addressed by Krishna Menon, the then defence minister of India that he would donate most of his properties for the war fund along with a sum of one lakh rupees in cash, a Gold Sword and the service of one of his 16 year old son for the Indian army. This move on his part made him a great national hero and a great patriot. Thakur Madan Singh mixed with people freely. He heard them with patience and concern. He always put on the traditional Rajputi dress i.e. turban, dhoti & shirt. He spoke English language eloquently. Thakur Danta was a vociferous speaker in the assembly. He was always seen with reverence in the assembly.
Most princely states were ruled by Rajputs, and after merger with independent India, it was natural for these ex-rulers to have a say in the political developments of their states. But the Congress party was not interested in sharing power and prime minister Nehru had threatened to withdraw the Privy Purse if any member of Royalty stood for election. Some of Nehru's measures, like the Hindu code bill, also alienated the conservative population of the princely states.
In response the Ram Rajya Parishad was formed by Swami Karpatri ji and Thakur Madan Singh Danta. Thakur Madan Singh was President of Ram Rajya Parishad. In their manifesto, the Ram Rajya Parishad promised:
Right to bear arms
Right to own property
Formation of Akhand Bharat
Protection of Hindu shastra laws
Protection of Cows
Compensation for land taken away by government.
Mostly the Rajpoot rulers had an inborn loathing for politics and a natural instinct for serving in the army. But Hanwant Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur was then only 24 years and peeved at the promises to Jodhpur state broken by Congress. He formed his own party in the Marwar region, and made an alliance with the Ram Rajya Parishad and Jan Sangh known as the Samyukta Dal. It was predicted that Congress, which ruled India and also ran the interim government of Rajasthan, would easily sweep the state elections. Local bodies like the Marwar Kisaan Sabha merged with the Congress on the eve of the elections. Hanwant Singh was undeterred and gave a new life and focus to the Ram Rajya Parishad.
The Maharaja's party swept the Marwar region, and the Ram Rajya Parishad did well in the other parts of Rajasthan. But just before the results were announced the Maharaja died in a mysterious crash of his private plane. Sabotage was suspected by the Jodhpur people who rioted and came for the Congressman Vyas, who had lost the election in Jodhpur to Hanwant Singh.
Had Maharaja Hanuwant Singh lived, he would have taken the Ram Rajya Parishad to victory in the other parts of Rajasthan, and could have even posed a challenge to the Nehru Congress at the center. But because of Hanwant Singh's death this became a mere dream and the Ram Rajya Parishad dwindled down over the years and finally the anti-Congress forces rallied around the Swatantra Party, this time under the leadership of the Royal Family of Jaipur.
Thakur Madan Singh of Danta continued to lead the Ram Rajya Parishad as president. Thakur had to sell his land to finance the Ram Rajya Parishad, which had no other source of funds than contributions of its own members.
After independence he founded the Bhooswami Sangh to protect the interests of the jagirdars.
In May, 1955, when Shri Madan Singh of Danta was President of the Rajasthan Bhooswami Sangh, he called the Annual session of the Sangh at his residence namely "Danta House" situated in Jaipur. The session commenced on May 30, 1955 and lasted for five days. During this period a number of meetings were held in which programmes and questions of policies were discussed. Object of the session was to organise and consolidate the Sangh. A large number of Bhooswamis and other volunteers were, accordingly summoned from various parts of Rajasthan and accommodated at Danta House and at other places in Jaipur. Funds were collected by Shri Madan Singh to finance the activities of the Sangh. Messing arrangements for the participants were made at the Danta House. In the aforesaid meetings, Shri Madan Singh took the most prominent part. The gist of the speeches delivered by him was to appeal to the jagirdars to lend support, both in men and money, to the Sangh and to incite them to defy law and disturb public peace and order, even by resorting to acts of violence. In the meetings on June 2 and 5, 1955, he advocate the creation of a religious State in Rajasthan as opposed to the secular State laid down in the Constitution of India, The Sukhadia Ministry was asked to quit within a period of three days and the audience was incited to open violence under the garb of Satyagrah. An agitation was, later on, organised at Jaipur under his guidance and supervision on which occasion a number of cyclostyled leaf-lets captioned 'ran Bheri' meaning 'call for battle' were prepared and distributed mostly at Danta House under his instructions. In Ran Bheri No. 2, an open challenge was throne to the Government in the following words - "these scoundrels of democracy have sucked the blood of the people and we shall never tolerate them setting on the throne of Bhagwan Ram. " Most of the other Ran Bheris were also of a similarly provocative character defaming the Government and officials and preaching violence. On June 12, 1955, over 600 Rajputs assembled at Danta House from where an effigy of the Rajasthan Government was taken out and burnt on the main road near Chaupar Manak Chowk. As a result of the inflammatory speeches delivered by and incitement given to Bhooswamis to resort to violence, public order was disturbed and sec. 144 Cr. P. C. had to be promulgated on June 13, 1955 in Jaipur City. After the promulgation of sec. 144, a meeting was held in Danta House at about 4 p. m. the same day under the chairmanship of Thakur Madan Singh. In his presidential speech he incited the jagirdars to violence and exhorted them to retain their jagirs with the help of their swords. It was also decided in the meeting that the order u/s 144 Cr. P. C. should be defied. As a result of the above, batches of Bhooswamis collected in Johari Bazar and shouted the following slogans on June 14, 1955. Ek Dhakke Aur Do, Sukhadia Sarkar Tor Do One Two Three Four, Congress Haram Khor. On the arrest of these batches by the Police, a meeting was again held at Danta House at about 8 15 p. m. which was attended by about 500 Bhooswamis. In this meeting also Thakur Madan Singh exhorted the audience to be firm. His concluding remarks were that they had taken their jagirs by shedding their blood and would not part with them. It was no longer considered desirable to let things drift on and Thakur Madan Singh was ordered to be detained under Preventive Detention Act by the then District Magistrate, Jaipur. Later on Thakur Madan Singh expressed a desire to call off the agitation and to advise his followers to represent their grievances to the Government in a constitutional manner. On this Thakur Madan Singh was released from detention. The agitation was given up; The Government responded by releasing all those who had been convicted and were confined in Jails, and by withdrawing the pending prosecutions against others. But soon afterwards, Thakur Madan Singh again started propaganda for defiance of the lawful orders of the Government, and has ever since been acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order which would be evident from the following Immediately after his release, a meeting on behalf of the Bhooswami Sangh was held on July 21, 1955, at Danta House in which Thakur Madan Singh delivered a speech stating therein that the settlement had been achieved with the consent of the leaders of All India Kshatriya Mahasabha and other prominent workers. In case the Government does not fulfil the demands of the Sangh, the agitation should be started again from village to village, he said. A procession of Bhooswamis is was taken out on July 27,1952. from Danta House to Chaupar Manak Chowk where a public meeting was held in which Thakur Madan Singh accused the C. I. D. and Police for their misbehavior with the Satyagrahis and once more exhorted the audience to re-start the agitation vigorously from village to village in case the Government did not fulfil their demands. He presided over the meeting of the Working Committee of Bhooswami Sangh held at Danta House on August 5 and 6 at which discussions centered round the alleged given to them by the Government and the letter received from the Revenue Secretary asking them to intimate names of two Bhooswami Sangh representatives for the Committee appointed by the Government to settle their demands. They, however, decided not to do so as the composition of the Committee was not to their satisfaction. Not content with his anti law and order activities in Rajasthan, Thakur Madan Singh visited Ratlam on 21st August, 1955, in connection with the Madhya Bharat Rajput Sewa Sangh Conference. He addressed the representatives and members of the Working Committee the same day, wherein he stated that Satyagrah was the only panacea for their ills. Addressing a public meeting under the auspices of the District Bhooswami Sangh held at Sikar on 21st September, 1955, Thakur Madan Singh openly preached defiance of lawful orders and violence against the Government. Some relevant portions of this speech are given hereunder : - Muje Sikar aye huye char panch sal ho gaye halanki yah meri janam bhumi hai. Main ap logon se maafi chahta hun. Main is arse me Udaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Dungarpur, ki taraf raha aur uske bad Jaipur raha aur is daure me mene Bhoo-swamio ka sanghthan banaya. Ab bhaashno se kam chalne vala nahi hai. Laaton ke bhoot baaton se nahi maante. Isliye sanghthan mazabut karna chahiye. . . . . . . . . . . . . Mene aj Sukhadia se bhi keh diya ki ham jagire is tarh se nahi sopengey, chahe kuch bhi ho. . . . . . . . . . . Congress wale yaha prachaar karte he ki jagiri khatam kar dengye. Ham yuheen jagire nahi dengye. Jaise inke purkhon ne dee ho. Ham jagiren beizzati ke sath nahi dena chahate. Jaise ki dusre pranto me hui hai. Muje yah batlaye ki jagire khatam hone ke bad janta ko kya fayada hua. Aaj tak kisi bhi Congressi ne mujeh iska jabab nahi diya. Jagire bhi khatam karte hei aur muaavza bhi nahi milega. Tehsildar Sahib kisaano se kaheta hai ki jagirdaro ko lagan mat do. Meh bhi hukam deta hun ki tum log jagiri ka charge mat do. Jagire to lele our khane ko kuch nahi de. Mene yah kabhi nahi kaha hai ki Maan Singh dakoo bane magar jab chottey bhooswamio ko khane ko muaavza nahi milega to bhukha marta hua daakoo banega yah sahi cheez hai, Bhukha marta kaya nahi karta Jab ki hamne telephone dwara Jaipur se Tehsildar saheb Sikar ko yah kahelvaya diya tha ki kisaano ko aap parche taksim na kare phir bhi unhone parche taksim kar diye. Agar Tehsildar Sahib nahi manange to ham andolan karange, Ya to yahi rahenge ya Sikar ke rajput he rahenge. Tehsildar Sahib kal person tak chale jayenge. . . . . . . . . Rajasthan ke rajput ab chup nahi baithenge. Ham hamara manter padhenge. . . . . "
Thakur Madansingh directed the workers of the Sangh to collect funds and recruit volunteers for restarting the agitation in case the Government did not fulfil their demands. Workers have since been acting accordingly and establishing branches of Bhooswami Sangh at various places in Rajasthan. To train the volunteers of the Bhooswami Sangh for defiance of law and order, a Bhooswami Sangh and Kshatriya Yuwak Sangh camp was organised at Sirohi on October 23, 1955, which was also attended by Thakur Madan Singh. On October 25, six batches of volunteers (20 each) were imparted instructions in the method of staging a demonstration during an agitation. They were also given practical training in the method of firing with muzz loading guns and in the ways of counter-acting Lathi charges by the Police. Lectures were delivered regarding action to be taken by agitators in case a prohibitory order u/s 144 Cr. P. C. was promulgated Mock schemes were conducted in which volunteers acted as Collector, Superintendent of Police, Sub-Inspector of Police etc. On the next morning, the volunteers took out an effigy of Sukhadia in a procession reciting "ram Nam Satya Hai " and burnt the same near a tank about 200 yards away from Sarveshwar temple. A mock demonstration was then shown firing shots with a 12 bore gun at supposed S. P. and S. L and pelting stones at the Police during a mock lathi charge. Meetings (2000-2500) of the jagir-dars were held at Mitrapura and Bonli (Sawai Madhpur) on November 18 and 19 respectively wherein Thakur Madansingh instigated the Jagirdars not to surrender their jagirs on any account and to dishonour the congressmen, when they visit their area in election campaigns. On November 1, 1955, Sir Madansingh while addressing a meeting of Bhooswami Sangh held at village Toda Bhim (Sawai Madhopur), criticised the bonafides of the present Government and appealed to the jagirdars not to hand over their jagirs to the Government at any cost and asked them to keep themselves in readiness for the Satyagrah which was to be launched shortly. On November 22, at Danta House, Jaipur, a camera meeting of Bhooswami Sangh was had in which it was decided that another Satyagarh should be launched. In this connection, Thakur Madansingh visited Sikar on the 2nd of December, 1955 and after meeting Colonel Hanumansingh and other members of Bhooswami Sangh left for Jhunjhunu side.
Later on in the 1960s, he was also President of Jan Sangh. In the early 1960s he came under the influence of Maharani Gayatri Devi, and fought 1972 assembly election as a nominee of Swatantra Party. Gayatri Devi was the unquestioned leader of the Swatrantra Party alongwith Maha Rawal Laxman Singh and other noted jagirdars and princes of Rajasthan. As a leader of Rajputs and a champion of the interests of former Jagirdars Thakur Madan Singh carved out a place for himself in the early 1950s. He met Jawaharlal Nehru to discuss the problem of rehabilitation of Jagirdars and Zamindars. He was firmly of the view that Jagirdari was a system of administration/governance rather than a caste-based system for exploitation of the people. A number of Jats were appointed as Mukhias and Choudharies and were granted adequate compensation on land revenue in lieu of their services to the rulers. People from lower and un-touchable castes were also appointed as messangers, revenue officials, and security guards etc. The people engaged in literary and priestly activities were honoured and gifted with free land-grants. Thakur Madan Singh Danta was a soldier who fought in the second world war. Despite his traditional outlook, he was a staunch nationalist. At the time of India's war against China in 1962, impulsively he declared in a public meeting at Jaipur which was addressed by Krishna Menon, the then defence minister of India that he would donate most of his properties for the war fund along with a sum of one lakh rupees in cash, a Gold Sword and the service of one of his 16 year old son for the Indian army. This move on his part made him a great national hero and a great patriot. Thakur Madan Singh mixed with people freely. He heard them with patience and concern. He always put on the traditional Rajputi dress i.e. turban, dhoti & shirt. He spoke English language eloquently. Thakur Danta was a vociferous speaker in the assembly. He was always seen with reverence in the assembly.
