Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is an Indian right-wing,Hindu nationalist volunteer paramilitary organisation. It is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar,which has developed a presence in all facets of Indian society and includes the Bharatiya Janata Party,the ruling political party under Narendra Modi,the 14th prime minister of India. Mohan Bhagwat has served as the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS since March 2009.
The Sangh Parivar refers,as an umbrella term,to the collection of Hindutva organisations spawned by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),which remain affiliated to it. These include the political party Bharatiya Janata Party,religious organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad,students union Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP),religious militant organisation Bajrang Dal that forms the youth wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP),and the worker's union Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. It is also often taken to include allied organisations such as the Shiv Sena,which share the ideology of the RSS.
Vinay Katiyar is a politician and the founder-president of Bajrang Dal,the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in India. He has served as an All India General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),and as a Member of Parliament in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
Kuppahalli Sitaramayya Sudarshan was an Indian activist and the fifth Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a Hindu nationalist organisation from 2000 to 2009.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) (transl. All India Students' Council) is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Ashok Singhal was the international working president of the Hindu organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) for over 20 years and in charge of the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi movement. He was replaced in the Vishva Hindu Parishad in December 2011 following a long bout of diminishing physical health. Succeeded by Praveen Togadia,Singhal suffered ill-health but was working till a month before his death.
Rajendra Singh Tomar,popularly called Rajju Bhaiya,was the fourth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He was chief of that organisation between 1994 and 2000.
Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras,was the third Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) is an Indian farmers' organization that is politically linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. BKS was founded by Dattopant Thengadi in 1978. As of 2000,Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh claimed BKS had a quarter million members,organized in 11,000 villages and 301 districts across the country. The organization is dominated by landed gentry.
Hindu terrorism,sometimes called Hindutva terror or,metonymically,saffron terror,refer to terrorist acts carried out on the basis of motivations in broad association with Hindu nationalism or Hindutva.
Dattopant Bapurao Thengadi,was an Indian Hindu Ideologue,trade union leader and founder of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch,Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. He was born in the Arvi town of Wardha district in Maharashtra.
Madhav Prasad Tripathi was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh. He was an Indian philosopher,sociologist,historian and political scientist. He was one of the most important leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and played key role in establishing the party,the forerunner of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party.
Om Prakash Dhankar also known as O. P. Dhankar,is an Indian politician and social activist,belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and formerly is the President of Bhartiya Janata Party,Haryana. He was a Cabinet Minister in the BJP run Government of Haryana till 2019.
Vellamvelly Muraleedharan is an Indian politician from Kerala and former Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs of India from 2019 to 2024. He was the eighth State President of BJP in Kerala. He was also a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He was sworn in as a Union Minister on 30 May 2019. On 12 June 2019,Muraleedharan was appointed Government Deputy Chief Whip in the Rajya Sabha. He contested in the 2024 Indian general election from Attingal constituency,but lost.
Ravindra Yashwantrao Bhusari was the Maharashtra State General Secretary (Organisation) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for western India and a former member of its National Executive.
V Satish is the Indian politician and the National Organiser of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Currently he is in-charge of West-Zone and Andhra Pradesh,Bharitya Janata Party. He is Full-time Worker,Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has been the senior functionary for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Lakshman Prasad Acharya is an Indian politician,serving as the 17th Governor of Sikkim. Being affiliated to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP),he was a member of Legislative Council from Uttar Pradesh elected by the members of Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2023.
Ashwani Mahajan is the National Co-Convener of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM),an Indian political and cultural organisation. SJM is affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Naresh Bansal is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from Uttarakhand in the Rajya Sabha. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a former General Secretary (Organisation) of Bharatiya Janata Party,Uttarakhand and also previously served as its interim president. As of 2020,he has been involved with party activities for over four decades.
