A former full-time RSS pracharak has written to Amit Shah and Priyank Kharge demanding that the RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal be declared terrorist organisations. Yashwant Sahdev Shinde served the Sangh for 25 years. He says he quit after being asked to join a bomb-preparation and training team. In 2022 he filed a sworn affidavit in the Nanded CBI court detailing alleged bomb-making camps in 2003 under VHP leader Milind Parande, weapons training linked to Indresh Kumar, and a coordinated plan of blasts meant to polarise and help the BJP electorally. He has now gone further. He wants Mohan Bhagwat, Indresh Kumar and Parande investigated and arrested for their alleged roles in the string of 2000s blasts that were repeatedly blamed on “fringe elements” or Muslims. The same organisations that lecture the nation on nationalism and patriotism face a demand for ban from one of their own long-time workers. The same ecosystem that weaponises every allegation against opponents has no answer when the allegation comes from inside. Courts closed many of those cases. Acquittals followed. The questions Shinde raises did not disappear with the verdicts. When an insider who spent decades in the organisation calls it what he does, the burden of explanation shifts. Silence is no longer an option. A lot is here to conclude from. It’s now or never. #RSS #BanRSS #BJP