Partha Bandyopadhyay

Partha Banerjee grew up in Calcutta. His father Jitendra Nath Banerjee was a grassroots political organizer in RSS and its erstwhile political wing Bharatiya Jana Sangh (now Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP). Partha Banerjee received his first training in political organizing from his father while with RSS, and later by his maternal uncle Buddhadev Bhattacharjee who belonged to Congress Party. Partha Banerjee quit RSS out of ideological disillusionment with the organization’s militant, fundamentalist doctrine, yet without disavowing his deep roots in ecumenical and secular Hinduism.