RSS and freedom movement: Glossing over the non-participation
By News Desk| Updated: 12th March 2021 11:48 am IST
By Ram Puniyani
RSS the parent organization of the ruling BJP is quite often being discussed in the public domain. While it has grown tremendously during the last few years, there are attempts by many ideologues from its stable to prove that it was a major player in the freedom struggle. Rakesh Sinha, known as RSS ideologue and currently BJP MP in Rajya Sabha claims that the Civil Disobedience movement was invigorated due to the participation of RSS founder Hedgewar in that. There are other claims which go further. One Saji Narayan goes to state that RSS was in the thick of the freedom movement. One also recalls that the onetime RSS pracharak and Ex-Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself had claimed to have participated in the freedom movement.