RSS volunteers are all trained political activists of the Sangh Parivar, and the Sangh creates the conditions in which communal violence easily springs up. The Rashtriya Swayamsevk Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), key organizations in the Hindutva movement, are shadowy organizations which have been banned several times in India for fomenting communal violence. VHP and RSS workers have been implicated in murderous activities. Numerous judicial inquiries have noted the role of RSS in creating conditions for communal riots. Now, as a matter of strategy, RSS and VHP operate through front organizations which are legally registered and function as charities. RSS itself has no legal status. It maintains no membership rolls. It has no internal democracy and its accounts are never audited publicly.
