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 the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The present Sarsanghchalak of the RSS is Mohan Bhagwat.
Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He was also the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving from 1998 to 2004. He was also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He was the leader of the BJP during the 2009 general election.
The Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated asBJS or JS,short name:Jan Sangh,was an Indian right wing nationalist political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. In 1977,it merged with several other left,centre and right parties opposed to the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party. After Janata Party's defeat in 1980 Lok Sabha polls,Advani and Vajpayee,the last two presidents of Jana Sangh,initiated moves to resuscitate Jan Sangh;but this time the new grouping took the name Bharatiya Janata Party.
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.
Akhand Bharat,also known as Akhand Hindustan,is a term for the concept of a unified Greater India. It asserts that modern-day Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,India,Maldives,Myanmar,Nepal,Pakistan,Sri Lanka and Tibet are one nation.
Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar,popularly known as Guruji was the second Sarsanghchalak ("Chief") of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Golwalkar is considered one of the most influential and prominent figures among Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by his followers.
Organiser is a mouthpiece of the Hindutva voluntary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It was launched as a newspaper in 1947 in the weeks before the Partition of India. The newspaper has been edited by A. R. Nair,K. R. Malkani,L. K. Advani,V. P. Bhatia,Seshadri Chari and Dr R. Balashanker. It has promoted misinformation on many occasions.
Sunder Singh Bhandari was an Indian politician,a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak and politician belonging to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party.
Balraj Madhok was an Indian political activist and politician from Jammu. Originally an activist of the nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),he later worked as a politician in the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS).
Bhai Mahavir was an Indian politician who was governor of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh between April 1998 and March 2003. He was a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and served as a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party. He has authored many books and had served two terms prior to his governorship as a member of the Rajya Sabha. He had an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics and studied Law (LLB) from the University of Delhi.
Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh BR,better known as Nanaji Deshmukh,was a social reformer and politician from India. He worked in the fields of education,health,and rural self-reliance. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna,India's highest civilian award in 2019 by the Government of India. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and also a member of the Rajya Sabha.
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.
Ram Bilas Sharma is an Indian former Cabinet Minister in Bharatiya Janata Party's Government of Haryana,and former education minister and politician who has represented the Mahendragarh constituency as an MLA in the northern state of Haryana five times.
Deendayal Upadhyaya was an Indian politician,proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS),the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Upadhyaya started the monthly publication Rashtra Dharma,broadly meaning 'National Faith',in the 1940s to spread the ideals of Hindutva revival. Upadhyaya is known for drafting Jan Sangh's official political doctrine,Integral humanism,by including some cultural-nationalism values and his agreement with several Gandhian socialist principles such as sarvodaya and swadeshi (self-sufficiency).
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.
Mauli Chandra Sharma was a senior Indian politician,originally of the Indian National Congress. He was a founding member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh,serving as its Vice-President and President,before being forced out by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activists in the party in 1954.
These are the references for further information regarding the Sangh Parivar.
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.
Trivendra Singh Rawat is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand between 2017 and 2021.
