On 25 June 1956, three years after Shyama Prasad’s death, Golwalkar wrote in the Organiser, elucidating the RSS point of view, ‘I had to warn him [Shyama Prasad] that the RSS could not be drawn into politics; that it could not play second fiddle to any political or other party, since no organization devoted to the wholesale regeneration of the real, that is cultural life of a nation could ever function if it was used as a handmaid [sic] of political parties.’
