Relations With RSS, Jana Sangh and The BJP
Goenka was alleged to have been close to nationalist organizations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and its daughter political parties the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and later the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was said to be friendly to social activist Nanaji Deshmukh and the Rajmata of Gwalior Vijayaraje Scindia, both members of the RSS and the BJS. He was also close to Jayprakash Narayan and supported the latter to become PM in 1975. His aides S. Gurumurthy and J. K. Jain were also known to be RSS swayamsevaks. His most famous editor was Arun Shourie, who later became a BJP minister. Arun Jaitley, who represented Goenka in some legal cases, later served V. P. Singh’s government in a legal capacity was later a minister when the BJP came to power.
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