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  • He quit the tea stall to become a 'swayamsevak' and later a full-time 'pracharak'.

    India News Digest: China Raises India Toy Ban at WTO 2009

  • Seva Dal chief organiser Mahendra Joshi said the organisation was preparing a 15,000-strong voluntary force (swayamsevak) from 7,500 blocks across the country.

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  • "This is because of the strong feeling to serve the country, which is nurtured in the heart of swayamsevak," he said.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • "This is because of the strong feeling to serve the country, which is nurtured in the heart of swayamsevak," he said.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • The official reason is that Varun is from the Gandhi parivar, and as swayamsevak and Hindutvawadi, NaMo opposes that family.

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  • "Being a swayamsevak (volunteer) of the RSS, which had no role in the Indian freedom struggle, his ignorance is quite obvious, as otherwise, he should have known that they [freedom fighters] were sentenced to death actually for the assassination of JP Saunders, and that it was well-known and documented Lahore conspiracy case," Sibal said.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • Speaking to mediapersons, Yeddyurappa said, "I am a swayamsevak and as everybody else, I am wearing the sangh uniform."

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • Chaupal, a Dalit (Paswan, by caste), has been a much-feted swayamsevak in the BJP/RSS, and the Sangh Parivar has always maintained that "his shilanyas act showed that the RSS-BJP's Hindutva was an inclusive, all-encompassing idea."

    Top Headlines 2009

  • During Partition in 1947, the RSS was responsible for many horrifying atrocities against India's Muslims, and it was a former RSS swayamsevak, Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi for (in RSS eyes) "pandering" to the Muslims.

    Bloggers.Pakistan Riaz Haq 2009

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