The former RSS chief went to Raipur from Jabalpur on Thursday to release a book penned by Chhattisgarh Rajya Sabha member Gopal Vyas and was staying at the RSS office there.
He was scheduled to leave for Nagpur on Sunday morning. He suffered a massive heart attack at around 7am on Saturday and died within few minutes.
His body will be kept at the RSS headquarters at Reshimbagh, Nagpur, for people to pay their last respects. His funeral will be held on Sunday afternoon.
Born in Raipur (Chhattisgarh) on June 18, 1931 in a Sanketi Brahmin family, Sudarshan, basically hailed from Kuppalli village of Mandva district in Karnataka. He was a gold medallist in Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications from Sagar University. He attended his first RSS shakha at the age of 9 and chose to become an RSS pracharak.
Sudarshan was appointed as a pracharak in 1954. His first posting as a pracharak was in Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh. In 1964, he was made the prant (state) pracharak of Madhya Pradesh at a young age on 33. Later, he served as head of the pracharaks, in-charge of north-east, chief of think-tank and physical exercise.