RSS ideologue and the organisation’s first spokesperson Madhav Govind Vaidya died here on Saturday, his family said. He was 97.
Vaidya, who had recovered from coronavirus infection, died at a private hospital in Nagpur. The last rites will be held on Sunday.
Vaidya, who became a volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh almost two decades after the organisation was set up, had seen it all during his eight decade-old association with it: the three bans, isolation, internal conflicts over joining politics, ferment and resurgence, changing power equations with the BJP, and the latter’s storming to power at the Centre in 2014.