How RSS progenies SJM, VHP and BMS fared over the past four years

With Modi's current tenure as PM nearing its end, Radhika Ramaseshan finds out how Sangh's progenies SJM, VHP and BMS fared over the past four years

Ashwani Mahajan, national co-convener of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), remembered meeting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a day after the Narendra Modi government was sworn in.  “Jaitley recalled the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA's) first tenure (under Atal Bihari Vajpayee) and said we made had a mistake on disinvestments. He admitted we shouldn’t have gone ahead with strategic disinvestments as they brought a bad name to the government,” said Mahajan. “The present government showed a lot of receptivity instead of being confrontational.” 

Perhaps it was the realisation that the SJM itself had relentlessly