List of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, volunteer organisation which is widely regarded as ideological parent organisation of the ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party.[1][2][3][4] The RSS is one of the principal organizations of the Sangh Parivar group. RSS is the ideological parent of BJP. But BJP is not a political arm of RSS .Founded on Vijaya Dashami day in 1925, it claimed a commitment to selfless service to India.[5] The BJP traces its roots to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS; Indian People’s Association), which was established in 1951 as the political wing of the pro-Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS; “National Volunteers Corps”) by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. organisation is one of the world's largest voluntary organization.Organisation inspired institutions and movements today form a strong presence in social, cultural, educational, labour, developmental, political and other fields of nationalist endeavour .[6]
Political leaders[edit]
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians[edit]
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee — 7th Prime Minister of India (1998–2004)
- L. K. Advani — Deputy Prime Minister of India (2002–2004)
- Murli Manohar Joshi — Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
- Narendra Modi — 14th Prime Minister of India (2014–present)
- Rajnath Singh — Minister of Defence (2019–present)
- Ram Nath Kovind — 14th President of India (2017–2022)
- Venkaiah Naidu — 13th Vice President of India (2017–2022)
- Nitin Gadkari — Minister of Road Transport and Highways (2014–present)
- Manohar Parrikar — 10th Chief Minister of Goa (2000–2005)
- Amit Shah — 31st Home Minister of India (2019–present)
- Vijay Rupani — 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat (2016–2021)
- Devendra Fadnavis — 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2014–2019)
- Shankersinh Vaghela — 12th Chief Minister of Gujarat (1996–1997)
- Keshubhai Patel — 10th Chief Minister of Gujarat (1995; 1998–2001)
- Pramod Mahajan — former Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 2001–2003
- Gopinath Munde — former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from 2009–2014
- Biplab Kumar Deb — 10th Chief Minister of Tripura (2018–present)
- Manoharlal Khattar — 10th Chief Minister of Haryana (2014–present)
- Dilip Ghosh — Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2019–present)
- B. S. Yediyurappa - 19th Chief Minister of Karnataka (2019- 2021)
- B. L. Santhosh National General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party
- Ram Madhav — National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2014–present).
- Jai Ram Thakur - Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh (2017–2022)
- Suresh Bhardwaj - Cabinet Minister of Himachal Pradesh (2017–present)
- Naresh Bansal — Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
- Kirit Parmar - Mayor of Ahmedabad
- G Kishan reddy — Union minister (2021 — present)
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar — BJP national general secretary (2023 — present) [7]
Other party leaders[edit]
- Deendayal Upadhyaya— former president of Bharatiya Jana Sangh from 1967–1968.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ McLeod, John (2002). The history of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-0-313-31459-9. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^ Andersen, Walter K.; Damle, Shridhar D. (1987), The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism, Delhi: Vistaar Publications, p. 111, ISBN 9788170360537
- ^ Horowitz, Donald L. (2001). The Deadly Ethnic Riot. University of California Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0520224476.
- ^ Jeff Haynes (2 September 2003). Democracy and Political Change in the Third World. Routledge. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-1-134-54184-3.
- ^ "A self-goal by the RSS". The Indian Express. 6 January 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
- ^ Chitkara, M. G. (2004). Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: National Upsurge. ISBN 9788176484657.
- ^ "संघ के स्वयंसेवक किरीट परमार ने अहमदाबाद के मेयर का पद संभाला, उनकी सादगी की पूरे गुजरात में चर्चा हो रही". Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi). Retrieved 2022-10-11.