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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation. Formed in 1925, the RSS is widely regarded as the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's ruling political party.[1][2][3][4] Though the organisation does not have records of its membership, it is estimated to have around 4 million members.[5] The following is a list of major members of the RSS.
Political leaders[edit | edit source]
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians[edit | edit source]
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee — 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 — Prime Minister of India (2014–present)
- Rajnath Singh — Minister of Defence (2019–present)
- Ram Nath Kovind — President of India (2017–2022)
- Venkaiah Naidu — Vice President of India (2017–2022)
- Nitin Gadkari — Minister of Road Transport and Highways (2014–present)
- Manohar Parrikar — Chief Minister of Goa (2000–2005)
- Amit Shah — Minister of Home Affairs (2019–present)
- Vijay Rupani — Chief Minister of Gujarat (2016–2021)
- Devendra Fadnavis — Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2014–2019)
- Shankersinh Vaghela — Chief Minister of Gujarat (1996–1997)
- Keshubhai Patel — Chief Minister of Gujarat (1995; 1998–2001)
- Pramod Mahajan — Minister of Communications and Information Technology (2001–2003)
- Gopinath Munde — Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2009–2014)
- Biplab Kumar Deb — Chief Minister of Tripura (2018–2022)
- Manoharlal Khattar — Chief Minister of Haryana (2014–present)
- Dilip Ghosh — Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2019–2024)
- B. S. Yediyurappa — Chief Minister of Karnataka (2019–2021)
- Ram Madhav — National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2014–present).
- Jai Ram Thakur - Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh (2017–2022)
- Suresh Bhardwaj - Himachal Pradesh Cabinet Minister (2017–2022)
- Naresh Bansal — Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
- Kirit Parmar — Mayor of Ahmedabad
- G. Kishan Reddy — Union Cabinet Minister (2021–present)
- Bandi Sanjay Kumar — BJP national general secretary (2023–present) [6]
Other party leaders[edit | edit source]
- Deendayal Upadhyaya— former president of Bharatiya Jana Sangh from 1967–1968.
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Bhatia, Rahul (1 August 2024). "'Nobody knows what I know': how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 August 2024.
- ↑ "संघ के स्वयंसेवक किरीट परमार ने अहमदाबाद के मेयर का पद संभाला, उनकी सादगी की पूरे गुजरात में चर्चा हो रही". Dainik Bhaskar (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 11 October 2022.