Former RSS Worker Demands Terrorist Tag for RSS VHP and Bajrang Dal Over Bomb Blast Allegations
A major legal and political controversy developed after a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh full-time worker, Yashwant Shinde, submitted a detailed affidavit before a special court alleging the involvement of senior right-wing leaders in orchestrating bomb blasts across the country. In his court application, Shinde demanded that the court declare right-wing affiliates including the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishva Hindu Parishad, and Bajrang Dal as terrorist organizations due to their alleged role in organizing bomb-making camps and executing blasts targeting civilian areas.
Shinde, who served as an RSS pracharak for over two decades, submitted the affidavit in connection with the 2006 Nanded bomb blast case. In his legal filing, he claimed that senior functionaries within the Sangh Parivar ecosystem organized clandestine training camps in Pune and other regions to assemble improvised explosive devices. He alleged that these weapons were deployed in various locations, including Parbhani, Jalna, and Purna, in an effort to polarize local populations and influence political outcomes.
According to his court submission, Shinde participated in preliminary discussions but refused to carry out direct attacks after realizing the scale of planned violence against civilian targets. He claimed that despite raising concerns directly with senior leadership over several years, no corrective action was taken internally, forcing him to approach the judiciary. His application urged investigating agencies to re-examine the scope of right-wing extremism and prosecute leaders who allegedly coordinated these operations.
The legal filing drew intense political reactions across the nation. Opposition leaders and civil rights organizations cited the whistleblower statements to demand independent, high-level probes into historical bomb blast cases involving right-wing outfits. Representatives from the Social Democratic Party of India and other political groups held press briefings urging central intelligence agencies to review security threats posed by radical cadre networks.
Conversely, leaders from the ruling party and affiliated organizations firmly rejected the allegations, describing the claims as politically motivated fabrications designed to malign nationalist organizations. Legal counsel representing the accused organizations argued that the court application lacked fresh admissible evidence and constituted an attempt to reopen settled judicial inquiries. Despite the legal pushback, the whistleblower affidavit remains a central reference point in ongoing public debates regarding right-wing extremism and judicial accountability in national security investigations.