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New Delhi: A former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak has called for the RSS, Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal to be declared \u201cterrorist organisations\u201d and demanded investigations into senior Hindu right-wing leaders over allegations of involvement in bomb blasts and weapons training in India during the 2000s.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, Yashwant Sahdev Shinde, who worked as a full-time RSS worker from 1990 before leaving the organisation, has written to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah and Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge, reiterating allegations he has made for years regarding alleged covert operations, bomb-making training and attacks carried out by Hindu extremists.<\/p>\n
Shinde has also demanded the arrest and investigation of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, RSS leader Indresh Kumar and VHP general secretary Milind Parande, alleging that they had roles in a series of bomb explosions across India. The allegations have not been independently established, and the RSS and VHP have not responded to them in the four years since Shinde first made them.<\/p>\n
In a sworn affidavit submitted before a special CBI court in Nanded in August 2022, Shinde claimed that RSS and VHP members had held meetings to plan bomb blasts and that he received bomb-making training under Parande’s guidance in 2003 along with around 20 other persons. He sought to become a prosecution witness in the Nanded blast case.<\/p>\n
The affidavit was submitted in connection with the April 2006 Nanded blast, in which an explosion at the home of alleged RSS worker Laxman Rajkondwar killed his son Naresh and Himanshu Panse, reportedly a VHP activist. The CBI had described the incident as a bomb-assembly operation and investigated whether the explosives were intended for an attack on a mosque in Aurangabad.<\/p>\n
Shinde went on to add that some trainees were involved in attacks on mosques in Jalna, Purna and Parbhani in 2003-04, which he claimed were intended to be blamed on Muslims. He revealed that he received training for covert operations in Pakistan and subsequently participated in discussions concerning bomb attacks in India.<\/p>\n
The revelations come against the backdrop of several investigations into blasts in which Hindutva activists were accused, including the Ajmer Dargah blast, Malegaon blast and Nanded blast cases. However, courts have acquitted accused persons in a number of these cases.<\/p>\n
In January 2025, a Nanded trial court acquitted all nine surviving accused in the 2006 blast case.<\/p>\n
Shinde has also made allegations against RSS leader Indresh Kumar in connection with the Ajmer Dargah blast and against former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Colonel Prasad Purohit in the Malegaon case. The accused in these cases have denied wrongdoing and courts have delivered varying outcomes, including acquittals.<\/p>\n
The former RSS worker has additionally levelled allegations concerning a wide range of political and security developments, including the 2002 Gujarat violence, the 2019 Pulwama attack and the August 2019 abrogation of Article 370.<\/p>\n
The renewed allegations have intensified scrutiny of India’s Hindutva organisations and raised questions about accountability for allegations of politically motivated violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: A former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak has called for the RSS, Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal to be declared \u201cterrorist organisations\u201d and demanded investigations into senior Hindu right-wing leaders over allegations of involvement in bomb blasts and weapons training in India during the 2000s. According to Kashmir Media Service, Yashwant …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"yoast_head":"\n