A leading RSS cadre who happens to be the chief minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma true to his training at the RSS ‘boudhik shivirs’ (ideological training camps) resorted to a Hindutva trade-mark lie that
“The Bajrang Dal is not associated in any
way with the Bharatiya Janata Party or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.”
[‘RSS, BJP
don’t even have a distant connection with Bajrang Dal: Himanta on outfit
providing arms training in Assam, The Indian Express, Delhi, September 12,
2023. Link: ]
This lie was
spoken not while addressing some Hindutva zealots or election meeting but in a
meeting of Assam Assembly. He was responding to an adjournment motion on arms
training during a Bajrang Dal camp in the state earlier in 2023. Let us compare
this claim of Himanta with the documents in the RSS archives. The central
publication house of the RSS, the Suruchi Prakashan, published a book in Hindi,
Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par (The Road to Great Supreme Glory) penned by a senior
RSS ideologue, Sadanand Damodar Sapre in 1997 giving details of more than 40
organizations created by the RSS for different tasks. The BJP as a political
organization figures prominently in it, clubbed with the ABVP, Hindu Jagaran
Manch, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini, Swadeshi Jagaran
Manch and Sanskar Bharti. The preface of
the book itself declared that,
“Without the
knowledge of the different kinds of activities of the Sawyamsevaks (the
volunteers of the RSS) the introduction of the RSS is incomplete. Keeping this
in mind it has been attempted in this book to produce the brief information
about the diverse activities of the Sawyamsevaks. This book covers the
organizational status till 1996…We believe that this book will prove to be of
use for those who want to understand the RSS with the Swyamsevaks.”
[Sapre,
Sadanand D., Parm Vaibhav Ke Path Per, Suruchi (RSS central publication house),
Delhi, 1997, p. 7.]
Bajrang Dal is a Rogue Child of RSS: A Peep into RSS Archives
This book
described in detail the process of creation of VHP, Bajrang Dal and Durga
Vahini by RSS in pages 20-24. According to it, “under the guidance and
prompting of worshippable Guruji (MS Golwalkar, the then Supremo of RSS)” VHP
was founded in a meeting of Hindu saints held at Sandipani Ashram in Bombay
(now Mumbai) on August 29, 1964. While discussing the activities of VHP as an
appendage of RSS, Sadanand Sapre made it clear that Bajrang Dal and Durga
Vahini were founded in order to organize Hindu youth both males and females.
According to the description till 1996 Bajrang Dal and Durga Vahini had 2700
and 1100 units respectively spread over whole of the country.
RSS and Conspiracies
The above
publication of the RSS shows how the organization is run in a clandestine
manner. It runs like a well-organized mafia through its subsidiaries and
satellites. There has always been a conscious attempt to create confusion about
its different fronts which provide RSS with the opportunity to dissociate with
any of these as per its convenience. For instance it used Hindu Jagaran Manch
(HJM) for attacking Christians in late 1990s and when public opinion, media and
Parliament seemed to turn against it, RSS denied any relation with HJM.
Recently, when nefarious designs of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and
Dharam Sansad were exposed before the Nation, RSS announced that these were
independent organizations.
It will be
interesting to know that many of these organizations have been organized in a
clandestine manner, a characteristic of a Fascist set-up. For instance while
giving the details of Hindu Jagaran Manch (HJM), the book says,
“From the point
of view of Hindu awakening this kind of forums (HJM) at present are active in
17 states with different names like ‘Hindu Manch’ in Delhi, ‘Hindu Munani’ in
Tamilnadu, ‘Hinduekjut’ in Maharashtra. These are forums, not associations or
organizations, that’s why it is not required to have membership, registration
and elections.”
[Sapre,
Sadanand D., Parm Vaibhav Ke Path Per,
Suruchi (RSS central publication house), Delhi, 1997, p. 64.]
It is clear
that these work as mafia to avoid scrutiny by law and government. Such an
organizational mode provides an opportunity to RSS to disown any individual or
organization.
RSS indulges in
conspiracies too. It can be known by the following disclosure in Param Vaibhav
Ke Path Par about a case in Delhi immediately after Partition:
“Swayamsevaks
had posed to have adopted Musalman religion in order to gain the confidence of
Delhi Muslim League for knowing their conspiracies.”
[Sapre,
Sadanand D., Param Vaibhav Ke Path Per (Hindi), Suruchi, Delhi, 1997, p. 86.]
What these
swayamsevaks, impersonating as Muslims, on the eve of Independence were doing
was made clear by none other than Dr. Rajendra Prasad who later became first
President of the Indian Republic. In a letter to the first Home Minister of
India, Sardar Patel, on 14 March 1948, Prasad wrote:
“I am told that
RSS people have a plan of creating trouble. They have got a number of men
dressed as Muslims and looking like Muslims who are to create trouble with the
Hindus by attacking them and thus inciting the Hindus. Similarly there will be
some Hindus among them who will attack Muslims and thus incite Muslims. The
result of this kind of trouble amongst the Hindus and Muslims will be to create
a conflagration.”
[Rajendra
Prasad to Sardar Patel (March 14, 1948) cited in Neerja Singh (ed.), Nehru -
Patel: Agreement Within Difference—Select Documents & Correspondences
1933-1950, NBT, Delhi, p. 43.]
These facts
about anti-national and anti-constitution organizations created by RSS need to
be shared with all those individuals and organizations which are faithful to a
democratic-secular Indian polity. With such nefarious appendages of RSS who
needs any foreign enemy to undo India or Bharat.
Hurry Up! Time
is running out!!
Shamsul Islam
September 15,
2023
