Question: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS, is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of which ruling party of India, and is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress?

Context articles: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Hindutva
Bishunpur-Jaunpur
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Bharatiya Janata Party
Balraj Madhok
Organiser (magazine)
Laxman Vaman Paranjpe
Sangh Parivar

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS (Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsēvaka Saṅgha; IPA: , lit.
 "National Volunteer Organisation" or "National Patriotic Organisation"), is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of the ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
 The RSS is one of the principal organizations of the Sangh Parivar group.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi.
 His assassin was Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a Chitpavan brahmin from Pune, Maharashtra, a Hindu nationalist, a member of the political party, the Hindu Mahasabha, as well as a former member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organization.
 Godse had planned the assassination with other Hindus from various backgrounds including a refugee from the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
Hindutva ("Hinduness"), a term popularised by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923, is the predominant form of Hindu nationalism in India.
 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) adopted it as its official ideology in 1989.
 It is championed by the Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliate organisations, notably the Vishva Hindu Parishad.
Bishunpur is a village and postal address in Shahganj, Jaunpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
 Bishunpur was donated by its Hindu landlord to Nivaji Baba (which means one who is honoured with the name of Baba, or 'father') who is still worshipped by people of the village, which was inhabited by the Brahmins originating from Gorakhpur (routed from Mount Kailash).
 It is known as the 'holy village', referring to perfection in Brahmanism in modern as well as past times.
 It is the focal point of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's of Jaunpur mirror and scale of human values on the earth.
 This village has an intimate relation with the Ramapur, Azamgarh.
 Bishunpur has provided one of his best "Rastriya Swayamsevak" who worked to continue the flow of human life and flame of love on the earth, was Shree Parash Nath Mishra, treasurer of the first Vishwa Hindu Sammelan (World Hindu Conference ) January, 1966 of (Vishva Hindu Parishad) in Allahabad.
 He was 1st Rashtriya Swayamsevak of RSS who started the 1st day RSS Sangh Shakha in Naini Jail during Emergency in India.
 He was a worker for Bajrang Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a close associate of Murli Manohar Joshi and Keshari Nath Tripathi of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and BJP.
The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS), commonly known as the Jan Sangh, was an Indian nationalist political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu right-wing organisation.
 In 1977, it merged with several other left, centre and right parties opposed to rule of the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party.
 After the Janata Party split in 1980, it was re-formed as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, which is currently India's largest political party by primary membership and representation in Lok Sabha.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (] ; translation: Indian People's Party; BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress.
 s of 2016 , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies, and it is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership.
 The BJP is a right-wing party, with close ideological and organisational links to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Balraj Madhok (25 February 1920 – 2 May 2016) was an Indian political activist and politician from Jammu.
 Originally an activist of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he later worked as a politician in the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS).
 Madhok was instrumental in launching the RSS in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and later the political party Jammu Praja Parishad for representing the interests of Jammu Hindus.
 He eventually rose to become the president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and led its successful contest in the general election of 1967.
 He resigned from the party afterwards due to political differences with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L. K. Advani.
Organiser is an affiliated publication of the Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), launched as a newspaper in 1947 in the weeks before the Partition of India.
 Despite its professed claims of independence, it is regarded by scholars as an official organ of the RSS.
 The newspaper has been edited by A. R. Nair, K. R. Malkani, L. K. Advani, V. P. Bhatia, Seshadri Chari and R. Balashanker.
 The current editor is Prafulla Ketkar.
 "Organiser" was relaunched in a magazine format since the edition of 1 April 2014.
Laxman Vasudev Paranjpe (L. V. Paranjpe) was a co-founder of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), along with its first Sarsanghchalak Keshav Baliram Hedgewar.
 In the 1920 session of the Indian National Congress held in Nagpur, which was the biggeste conference ever thern, a total number of 14583 delegates were present.
 A volunteer organisation called Bharat Swayamsewak Mandal was formed by Paranjpe and Hedgewar, had undertaken the arrangements of the conference.
 All the volunteers were asked to wear a uniform, which was later adopted by the RSS as its own official uniform from 1925 to 1940.
 Paranjpe also served as the Acting Sarsanghchalak (1930–1931) when Hedgewar went to jail during the Forest Satyagraha.
The Sangh Parivar (translation: RSS family of organisations ) refers to the family of Hindu nationalist organisations which have been started by members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or drew inspiration from its ideology.
 The Sangh Parivar represents the Hindu nationalist movement.
 It includes the RSS and several dozen affiliated organisations, whose members' expressed opinions have been diverse over a range of topics.
 Nominally, the different organisations within the Sangh Parivar run independently and have different policies and activities.