https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dVCAPMms_CWu5CRdcE3f63ElT2ZIkAtd/view?usp=drivesdk know about deendyal upadhyay Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya was an RSS ideologue and was the all-India General Secretary of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (which later became became BJP in 1980). Deen Dayal Upadhyaya joined RSS full time in 1942 and later became a life-long Pracharak, after undergoing a training programme.
Since Pt. Upadhyaya came much later into the scene I will start with historical chronicles about RSS and the Indian Freedom Movement. There are many write ups and book excerpts available on the Internet, which says that RSS for the most part since their inception in 1925 (earlier known as the Hindu Yuva Club) stayed away from the Indian Freedom Movement. [1] Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar’s(RSS founder) Wiki page [2]however clearly mentions that he was a part of the Congress and the Hindu-Muslim Riots of 1923 prompted him to venture into an alternative route. [3]Hedgewar apparently even took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) and continued to work for Congress on an Individual level level till 1937.
It however seems true that the RSS as an organisation denounced the freedom struggle after the death of Hedgewar in 1940. Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar took the reins of RSS and is a well known Hindu hardliner. Golwalkar in his book We Or Our Nationhood Defined (1939), had said the following
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