24 Facts About Subash Chouhan

Subash Chouhan was the national President of the Bajrang Dal, a Hindutva organization in India that is the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

In 2001 Subash Chouhan was convenor of the Hindu Jagran Sammukhya.

From 2003 to 2006 Subash Chouhan was Convener of Bajrang Dal in Orissa.

Subash Chouhan was appointed co-convener of the Bajrang Dal at the national level in 2008.

Subash Chouhan said his organization planned to make a movie called Dara: The Hero about Dara Singh, the man who was convicted of the murder.

Subash Chouhan said "For us Staines was nothing less than a villain".

Subash Chouhan said the film would depict the "good work done by Dara in preventing conversion and cow slaughter" in the tribal areas.

In July 2009 Subash Chouhan said two of the Bajrang Dal's main concerns were a complete ban on cow slaughtering and protecting poor people from conversion.

Subash Chouhan said "Our aim is to reset the glory of Rama Raj and realize the dream of Mahatma Gandhi".

Subash Chouhan's organization was planning a major recruitment drive in the silver jubilee year, and was planning blood donation drives, forestry projects, anti-narcotics programs and programs to raise awareness of environmental problems and other social evils.

In February 2010 Subash Chouhan said his group would not allow the movie My Name Is Khan to be screened in Orissa.

Subash Chouhan said of the star "Shah Rukh has behaved like an agent of Pakistan by advocating the cause of Pakistani cricketers participating in the Indian Premier League".

Subash Chouhan said "We are not against love, but we criticize vulgar exhibition of love at public places".

In 2003, as Orissa state convenor for the Bajrang Dal, Subash Chouhan claimed that missionaries in the state were zealously converting Adivasis to Christianity, while "Islam fanatics" were converting Dalits to Islam.

Subash Chouhan said that "reconversion" was working well with the Christians, but they were having less success with the Muslims since the mullahs "guard their children like chickens".

Subash Chouhan suggested that the Bajrang Dal might have to use force to "get the job done".

However Angana Chatterji, the co-convenor of the tribunal, reported in a letter to the National Human Rights Commission of India that Chouhan had said "if I continue, the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad would strongly challenge and repress me".

Subash Chouhan noted that Chouhan's statements have been reported in the local press and on TV.

Subash Chouhan said the government's claim that Maoists could be behind the killings was laughable.

Subash Chouhan said Swami Lakshmanananda had alleged that Christians had been killing cows, which are sacred animals to Hindus, and had been forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity.

Subash Chouhan said he did not believe the Maoist leader's claim of responsibility for the killings.

Subash Chouhan denied that any Bajrang Dal had been involved, saying "Bajrang Dal activists are doing selfless service for the country".

Subash Chouhan said the attack was organized by minorities led by a Christian in order to stir up trouble between the police and the innocent tribals.

Subash Chouhan described the bill as having been planned and conceived at the bidding of foreign powers as part of an "international conspiracy to target the Hindu society, its leaders and organisations".