List of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is an Indian 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

Bharatiya Janata Party politicians

• 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 (2017–2022)
• 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

• Deendayal Upadhyaya— former president of Bharatiya Jana Sangh from 1967–1968.

See also

• List of Sarsanghchalaks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

References

1. McLeod, John (2002). The history of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-0-313-31459-9. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
2. 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
3. Horowitz, Donald L. (2001). The Deadly Ethnic Riot. University of California Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0520224476.
4. Jeff Haynes (2 September 2003). Democracy and Political Change in the Third World. Routledge. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-1-134-54184-3.
5. "A self-goal by the RSS". The Indian Express. 6 January 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
6. Chitkara, M. G. (2004). Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: National Upsurge. ISBN 9788176484657.
7. "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.