Pune/Nagpur: Shivaram Rajguru, the famous freedom fighter who sacrificed his life by facing gallows along with Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev in their fight against British monopoly, was recently in news for the 87^th death anniversary. And as everyone knows that the likes of RSS are in constant efforts to find a person of historical importance or India’s freedom struggle to idealize him and attach themselves with the personality to rationalize their ideology and behavior.  And at the end attract attention of Indians for being pro-nationalist.

The same was the case when, some voices were heard after a book, written by a pracharak  from the Saffron Band, claimed that the revolutionary figure was a ‘Swayamsevak’ attached with the organization RSS.  But right there after, the descendants of the freedom fighter Rajguru rejected the claim in the book outrightly and expressed their umbrage.

The author of the book is a former RSS pracharak and journalist Narender Sehgal.

“There is no proof available (to suggest) that Rajguru was a RSS swayamsevak and neither did our grandfather tell us so,” Satyasheel and Harshwardhan Rajguru, grandsons of the revolutionary’s brother, said in Pune.

“However, it is true that during Rajgurus’s brief stay at Nagpur, arrangements of his stay there were made by a Sangh swayamsevak,” they told a Marathi news channel.

“Rajguru was the revolutionary of the entire country and his name shouldn’t be associated with any particular organisation,” they said.

Senior RSS leader M G Vaidya claimed that RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar may have made “secret arrangements” for Rajguru’s stay in Nagpur.

When asked about, whether Rajguru had visited the Mohite Bagh shakha (unit) of the RSS in Nagpur, the city where the Sangh headquarters are located, Mr Vaidya said, “You are asking if Rajguru visited (the branch). He may have come. Did Dr Hedgewar make some arrangements for him? He may have done so.”

“When Aruna Asaf Ali was ‘underground’ (during the freedom movement), she stayed at the house of Delhi RSS functionary Hansraj Gupta,” Mr Vaidya said in Nagpur.

“If (Rajguru) came (to Nagpur), there is a possibility that Dr Hedgewar made secret arrangements for his stay. This is a possibility as Dr Hedgewar was a revolutionary and had relations with revolutionaries,” he said.

Mr Vaidya who is a former RSS Boudhik Pramukh (in charge of intellectual training) was asked if there were occasions where the topic of Rajguru came up for discussions in the Sangh “boudhik” deliberations…he said, “At least I haven’t heard of this”.

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