India: From RSS, ABVP, Bhagat Singh Krantikari Sena, BJP - the evolution of Bagga to 'Bagga Ji'

 National Herald

Importance of being a storm trooper: tracking the evolution of Bagga to 'Bagga Ji'

A school dropout like his leader and trained into “activism” at the RSS Shakha, Bagga's claim to fame is his ability to mobilise and lead vandals in the national capital. 

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/importance-of-being-a-storm-trooper-tracking-the-evolution-of-bagga-to-bagga-ji

 

Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena etc were to Hold Rally to Support Israel on July 21, 2014 in Mumbai - says announcement

[Namo Tea Party and Indo-Israel Friendship Association and others were to be at at this event]
See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/07/rally-support-israel-hamas-july-21-2014-mumbai.html

India: Ultra Right wing parties form Grand Hindu Alliance to contest Assembly elections in Delhi

From: The Hindu,
NEW DELHI, November 2, 2013

Ultra Right wing parties plan to contest Assembly elections

Shubhomoy Sikdar

They may not have had much electoral success in the past but claiming to stand for the protection of “rights and values of the Hindus”, the ultra Right wing parties across the spectrum are planning to contest the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.

Four such parties--Rashtrawadi Sena, Hindu Mahasabha, Hindustan Nirman Dal and Rashtra Nirman Party--are contesting as a front called the Grand Hindu Alliance. Others, such as Shiv Sena, plan to go solo if a seat sharing arrangement does not work and fight the battle in a limited number of seats.

Incidentally, some of these parties had walked away with over 2,000 votes each in the last Assembly polls, in which the margin of victory was less than 5,000 in as many as 20 seats. Of these, the BJP had managed to win only six while the Congress had bagged 14.

History has not been on the side of any of these parties in any elections, be it the Assembly or municipal polls, but they can still prove to be spoilers for the BJP.

In the Capital, where candidates contesting even under the symbols of regional units such as Indian National Lok Dal have tasted success in the past, none of these right wing parties have made any major mark.

For instance the Shiv Sena contested nine seats in the 2008 Assembly elections and drew a blank. In the 2012 municipal elections too, when the party fielded 22 candidates, it met with a similar fate, said Ajit Singh, the vice-president of the Shiv Sena Delhi unit.

According to Mr. Singhone of the party’s influential leaders Jai Bhagwan Goyal broke ranks over their central leadership’s stance on North Indians. Mr. Goyal went on to form a splinter group Rashtrawadi Sena which contested a few seats and lost all of them.

This time round, leading what is now a five-year-old party and a better and more cohesive unit at that, Mr. Goyal is confident of putting up a better show and is very clear about the constituency he is catering to. “We are only going to approach the Hindus for their votes as all other parties are ignoring the cause and issues that affect the community,” he said.

Asked if this would lead to a split of votes between them and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr. Goyal said the BJP too had compromised on its Hindutva agenda and hence was no longer a viable option for the Hindu voters. “Even the BJP is after Muslim votes and has been ignoring the concerns of over 100 crore Hindus and this has led to our disenchantment with them. If the votes get divided it is their problem, not ours. We will move forward with our own agenda and go to the people.”

Both the Alliance and the Sena are yet to finalise their list of candidates.

Smaller outfits, such as the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, have limited themselves to mobilising support for the Bharatiya Janata Party but with the main goal of boosting the prospects of Narendra Modi, the party’s prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

India: Photo of Billboard in Delhi by Right Wing Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena supporting 'IB' - Intelligence bureau (July 2013)

What is the connection between Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena and the IB ?

India: Far Right Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena Rock concert chants NaMo for PM

The Telegraph, 1 June 2013

Rock concert chants NaMo for PM RADHIKA RAMASESHAN New Delhi, May 31: “Advani, wake up, place your hand on Modi’s head because India needs a Sardar Patel and don’t repeat the mistake you committed in Karachi when you sang paeans to Jinnah.” The warning to BJP patriarch L.K. Advani — who has opposed Narendra Modi’s frontline projection for 2014 — was not sounded at an RSS podium but, of all places, in a rock concert staged at Constitution Club, used by the eminence grise to expatiate on political themes of national and global concern. Not a place for a party to play out its internal tussles. But the concert was not organised strictly by the BJP but an affiliate association called the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena headed by a former BJP youth wing activist, Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga. Bagga is infamous for assaulting lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan, Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and author-activist Arundhati Roy in the recent past for their supposed “radical” stances on Kashmir after which the BJP officially disowned him. That, however, did not check him from floating the capital’s first organised NaMo (Narendra Modi) fan club, cobbled from a motley membership of social network junkies, software pros, architects, flag-waving “nationalists” from the Bajrang Dal stable without their signature saffron bandanas, and RSS activists. Their agenda and objective were one: declare Modi as the Prime Minister candidate, convert 2014 polls into a presidential election and install the Gujarat chief minister as India’s next PM. “He is the perfect candidate because he has shown how rogue elements from both sides (Muslims and Hindus) can be reined in so that his state could prosper. That’s the template India needs,” declared Shilpi Tiwari, an architect who claimed she had taken a year’s sabbatical to pursue her NaMo-for-PM “goal”. Avowedly “apolitical”, the songs and speeches at Bagga’s show — set against a backdrop of a Modi poster, captioned “I want my nation to be Modi-fied”— was anything but that. Suresh Albela, who won the Great India Laughter Show, proved he could evoke laughter and fear simultaneously through idiom lifted out of RSS texts with an emphasis on a macho version of nationalism. Albela’s refrain was “Jaane kis din Lal Kille mein mardangi bhasha bolengee” (God knows on which day we will hear masculine language spoken from the Red Fort). He compared Modi with Krishna, saying he had emerged in the god’s “avatar” to save the country from a Prime Minister who “remained silent like a teddy bear unless he was prodded by the high command” and a leader who never thought beyond making a bee hive (Rahul Gandhi). Albela urged that Modi should be instantly anointed as the country’s supreme commander of the forces so that Dawood Ibrahim could be brought back and tried. But his cutting line was reserved for Advani who he repeatedly said should place his hand on Modi’s head because the BJP now lacks an Atal Bihari Vajpayee and needed a Sardar Patel. A rock band, outfitted with guitars and drums, sang praises to Shiva with the “NaMo” chant. Its members donned T-shirts embossed with Modi’s picture and his definition of “secularism” as “India First”. Few in the BJP wanted to say anything about Bagga’s project, save for their silent endorsements. But he is regularly spotted at the party headquarters. When Albela spoke the unspeakable about Advani possibly being a hurdle in the way of Modi’s prime ministerial ambitions and the cadre’s wishes, sources in the party applauded him. They hoped that “extra-party pressures” of the sort witnessed today would get across the “message” to Advani.