Ram Chandra Vikal Gurjar (8 November 1916 in Nayagaon Basantpur, Gautam Buddha Nagar district – 26 June 2011) was a freedom fighter. He was an agriculture minister and was elected twice as a Member of Parliament as well as a five-time Member of the Legislative Assembly. He had charge of Jammu and Kashmir during the governments of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was also a well known yoga teacher. Vikal was influenced by the ideology of the Arya Samaj from childhood and participated in the freedom movement from his student days. An agriculturist, Vikal championed the cause of the farmers, labourers and backward classes, and was instrumental in implementing various social welfare measures such as getting irrigation rates reduced and land revenue written off. He also contributed to the setting up of various infrastructure facilities in the towns and villages of Uttar Pradesh by having bridges and railway lines constructed. He was also instrumental in getting several primary schools and colleges set up, establishing agricultural universities in Faizabad and Kanpur and a medical college in Meerut. Vikal was awarded the Degree of Vidyavachaspati, Honoris Causa, by the Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Jwalapur (Haridwar). Ram Chandra Vikal Gurjar started his legislative career as a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1952 and was Member of that Assembly from 1952 to 1971. He held various ministerial posts — Forests and Animal Husbandry, Excise, Agriculture, Irrigation, Jail and Fisheries – in the government of Uttar Pradesh from 1967 to 1970. He was also Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1967 and Chairman of State Farms Corporation of India from 1982 to 1984. Vikal was a Member of the Fifth Lok Sabha from Bagpat and represented Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha from April 1984 to April 1990. Shri Ram Chandra Vikal Gurjar had actively participated in the freedom struggle from his student life and fought against British rule during pre-Independence period. He gave up studies on the call of Mahatama Gandhi, boycotted foreign-made clothes and actively worked for the Congress Party. Shri Vikal gave up the teaching profession after assassination of Mahatama Gandhi. He worked for World Peace and in this respect, attended World Peace Conference held in Japan, 1970. He had maintained healthy and sound relations with Fuji Guruji of Japan. He also participated in various activities relating to social change during post-Independence period as well.