Parent organisation | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh |
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Affiliations | Sangh Parivar |
Hindu Jagarana Vedike is a right wing [1] Indian Hindu activist group affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). [2] [3] It is National Volunteer Association for men to protect the Hindus. [4] Its stated objective is "to organise, consolidate the Hindu society and to serve and protect. [5] the Hindu Dharma The ideology of the organisation is based on Hindutva. [6] The main task of this organisation is to stop atrocities against animals. It has many branches in different states of India. [7] The HJV (Hindu Jagarana Vedike) is considered a member of the Sangh Parivar, an umbrella term for Hindu nationalist organisations led by the RSS. [8] [9]
The Hindu Jagarana Vedike was involved in the 2012 Mangalore homestay attack, where 50 activists of the outfit broke into a house and assaulted the people who were partying. They dragged the girls by their hair, beat them and molested them. Men were assaulted. [1] [10] The Human rights organisation, People's Union for Civil Liberties, reported Hindu Jagarana Vedike as one of the perpetrators of the 2021 anti-Christian violence in Karnataka. [11]