Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta: Converting Hindus to Hindutva - Interview with D.R. Goyal (1929-2013) writer and historian
Des Raj Goyal was born in 1929 in Moga; Panjab; and joined the RSS in 1942, when
he was a school student. He was disillusioned with the organisation and
left it in 1947. He continued with his interest at an
analytical level and published a book on it in 1979, which is considered
authentic by academics.
Download: D. R. Goyal's book Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (2000 Edition)
see also
Madhu Limaye describes What RSS is
Hindutva's foreign tie-up in the 1930's
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
Poornima Joshi - Sangh Sing Song
More threats and lies from the RSS
D.R. GOYAL is known to have written the most authentic account of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), in 1978. As a school student, he joined the RSS,
which projected itself as one of the organisations fighting for India’s
independence, but it did not take him long to realise that the organisation’s
professions were not necessarily true. Since then, he has been a chronicler of
various developments in this “cultural” organisation. In 1962, when he was a
Delhi University lecturer, he set up a unit of the Communist Party of India at
the university. He later joined Subhadra Joshi (then Member of Parliament from
Jabalpur, who also holds the distinction of having defeated Atal Bihari
Vajpayee) to form the Sampradayikta Virodhi Manch..
An interview to Frontline in 2009 on the links between the RSS and BJP:
How do you
understand the present crisis in the BJP? What is the role of the RSS in
influencing the BJP’s recent decisions such as the expulsion of Jaswant Singh,
the sidelining of Yashwant Sinha, or the issuing of a show-cause notice to Arun
Shourie?
First of all, I would
say that the present situation in the BJP is like the Mahabharat. Kauravas and
Pandavas fighting each other. Instead of Krishna coming and trying to solve
[the conflict], the RSS jumps in. Though it has always been influencing it, for
the first time the RSS chief has come and issued a public statement before the
Chintan Baithak of the BJP. He made a statement on TV that older people should
retire and the leadership should be given over to people in their 50s and 60s.
This kind of thing has never happened earlier.
Another feature of
Mohan Bhagwat’s visit to Delhi was that he did not even show the courtesy of
visiting the ailing Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was a major leader of the
political formation founded by the RSS in 1951. Vajpayee was at that time
attached to Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and until the other day he led the party
and the BJP government for six years. So, an ordinary human courtesy required
that the head of an institution that founded the BJP should visit him. Not
necessarily for any consultation, but even Vajpayee’s advice, if he could
speak, would have been useful because he knew people more. Advani, in fact,
came into the political scene much later, only in the 1960s. Before that he was
only an RSS pracharak. Now it seems that Mohan Bhagwat has displayed a
preference for Advani over Vajpayee, which means that he has rejected all those
people who were with Vajpayee.
In other words, for
Bhagwat, Jaswant Singh, Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and all these people
are personae non gratae. He didn’t talk to any of them whereas he
talked to everyone who was either with Rajnath Singh or with Advani. For him,
the BJP means only those who are with Rajnath or Advani. The result of this was
that in the Chintan Baithak of the BJP, no one could discuss the reasons for
its defeat, which was the purpose of the meeting. If it had happened,
discussions on ideology would have come in. The RSS did not want that. All
these days, there have been discussions only about the real role of Hindutva.
Although Advani tried to undermine it, he is known to be a person who is
attached to Hindutva. In 2002, Vajpayee was
in favour of dismissing [Narendra] Modi, but Advani defended him. So in the
RSS’ view, Advani is the real RSS man, a defender of the RSS’ ideology, not
Vajpayee. Therefore anybody who is attached to Vajpayee has to be discarded...
Download: D. R. Goyal's book Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (2000 Edition)
see also
Madhu Limaye describes What RSS is
Hindutva's foreign tie-up in the 1930's
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
Poornima Joshi - Sangh Sing Song
More threats and lies from the RSS