Editing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (section)

===Involvement in the Babri Masjid demolition===
According to the 2009 report of the [[Liberhan Commission]], the Sangh Parivar organised the [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|destruction of the Babri Mosque]].<ref name="indianexpress kar sevaks">{{cite web |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/how-the-bjp-rss-mobilised-kar-sevaks/545911/ |title=How the BJP, RSS mobilised kar sevaks |work=The Indian Express|date=25 November 2009 |access-date=26 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219033847/http://www.indianexpress.com/news/how-the-bjp-rss-mobilised-kar-sevaks/545911/ |archive-date=19 December 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/india/Excerpts-from-the-Liberhan-Commission-report/Article1-479907.aspx |title=Excerpts from the Liberhan Commission report |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=25 November 2009 |access-date=26 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606125658/http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/india/Excerpts-from-the-Liberhan-Commission-report/Article1-479907.aspx |archive-date=6 June 2011 }}</ref> The Commission said: "The blame or the credit for the entire [[Ram Janmabhoomi movement|temple construction movement at Ayodhya]] must necessarily be attributed to Sangh Parivar."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/24/liberhan-comes-down-heavily-on-advani-and-vajpayee.htm |title=Liberhan comes down heavily on Vajpayee, Advani |work=rediff News |date=24 November 2009 |access-date=26 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224014918/http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/24/liberhan-comes-down-heavily-on-advani-and-vajpayee.htm |archive-date=24 February 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also noted that the Sangh Parivar is an "extensive and widespread organic body" that encompasses organisations that address and bring together just about every type of social, professional, and other demographic groupings of individuals. The RSS has denied responsibility and questioned the objectivity of the report. Former RSS chief [[K. S. Sudarshan]] alleged that the mosque had been demolished by government men as opposed to the [[Kar Sevak|Karsevak]] volunteers. On the other hand, a government of India [[white paper]] dismissed the idea that the demolition was pre-organised.<ref name="TNIE07122009">{{cite news |url=http://newindianexpress.com/opinion/article79638.ece |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629234130/http://newindianexpress.com/opinion/article79638.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2013 |title=Liberhan Takes Suspicions As Proof |newspaper=[[The New Indian Express]] |location=Bengalooru Edition |date=7 December 2009}}</ref>
The RSS was banned after the [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|1992 Babri Masjid demolition]], when the government of the time considered it a threat to the state. The ban was subsequently lifted in 1993 when no evidence of any unlawful activity was found by the tribunal constituted under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PnBFW7cdtsC|title=The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labor|last1=Noorani|first1=A. G.|year=2000|isbn=9788187496137|publisher=LeftWord Books|location=New Delhi|pages=99}}</ref>