The Hindu Yuva Sene was founded in Mangaluru in 1989 not as an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) but to counter some RSS leaders. After several frictions between the RSS and the Sene and the former’s continued efforts to check the growth of Sene, the RSS was able to make inroads into the Sene and make it a forum of the BJP and RSS now, says the autobiography of M.G. Hegde, a former RSS and ABVP functionary who is now a spokesperson of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).
The autobiography in Kannada titled ‘Chimani Belakininda’ was released in Mangaluru on Sunday, September 22.
Incidentally, Mr. Hegde was one of the founders of the Sene with others who had distanced themselves from the RSS disillusioned with its leaders and their functioning.
He was associated with the RSS and ABVP and “Hindutva” ideology since his young age before floating the Sene. Mr. Hegde joined the Congress in 1996 and was dormant for about 10 years before becoming active again in Congress since past three years.
The Hindu Yuva Sene was founded in Mangaluru in 1989 not as an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) but to counter some RSS leaders. After several frictions between the RSS and the Sene and the former’s continued efforts to check the growth of Sene, the RSS was able to make inroads into the Sene and make it a forum of the BJP and RSS now, says the autobiography of M.G. Hegde, a former RSS and ABVP functionary who is now a spokesperson of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).
The autobiography in Kannada titled ‘Chimani Belakininda’ was released in Mangaluru on Sunday, September 22.
Incidentally, Mr. Hegde was one of the founders of the Sene with others who had distanced themselves from the RSS disillusioned with its leaders and their functioning.
He was associated with the RSS and ABVP and “Hindutva” ideology since his young age before floating the Sene. Mr. Hegde joined the Congress in 1996 and was dormant for about 10 years before becoming active again in Congress since past three years.
The 250-page autobiography is published by Aharnishi Prakashana, Vidyanagara, Shivamogga.
Mr. Hegde says that the leaders and promoters of “communalism” in the coastal belt led lavish and quality lives, with their children getting educated abroad. At the same time, the foot soldiers and their families suffered in all respects with the foot soldiers languishing in jails and facing court cases.
The author records how he came out of the “intoxication of communalism” and “extreme Hindutva” and what made him distance from the RSS and ABVP.
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