member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was also a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. Rohit Tilak, a descendant of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, is a Pune-based Congress party politician. In 2017, a woman with whom he had an extra-marital affair accused him of rape and other crimes. He is currently out on bail in connection with these charges. Legacy On 28 July 1956, a portrait of B. G. Tilak was put in the Central Hall of Parliament House. The portrait of Tilak, painted by Gopal Deuskar, was unveiled by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Tilak Smarak Ranga Mandir, a theatre auditorium in Pune is dedicated to him. In 2007, the Government of India released a coin to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Tilak. The formal approval of the government of Burma was received for the construction of clafs-cum-lecture hall in the Mandalay prison as a memorial to Lokmanya Tilak. were given by the Indian Government and by the local Indian community in Burma. Several Indian films have been made on his life, including: the documentary films Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1951) and Lokmanya Tilak (1957) both by Vishram Bedekar, Lokmanya: Ek Yugpurush (2015) by Om Raut, and The Great Freedom Fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak - Swaraj My Birthright (2018) by Vinay Dhumale. Notes References Citations Sources External links 1856 births 1920 deaths People from Ratnagiri Marathi-language writers English-language writers from India Marathi people Indian revolutionaries Indian Hindus 19th-century Indian writers Hindu writers Hindu reformers Swadeshi activists Hindu nationalism Indian nationalists Indian social reformers Indian independence activists from Maharashtra 20th-century Indian writers Writers from Maharashtra Translators of the Bhagavad Gita Founders of Indian schools and colleges People from Maharashtra Prisoners and detainees of British India