RSS pracharak and VHP Leader Singhal death is a national loss- Grewal

Ludhiana : 17 November 2015
National Secretary BJP Kisan Morcha and Prabhari Himachal Pradesh Advocate, Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal today expressing deep condolence over the death of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak and Vishav Hindu Parishad (VHP) Senior Leader Shri Ashok Singhal. Talking with the media persons here today Grewal termed it as a national loss of the Country. He said that 89-year-old Shri Ashok Singhal was admitted to the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon after his health deteriorated, his condition was critical and he was on ventilator support in the ICU and Shri Ashok Singhal died at 2.24 PM at Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon. Grewal said that a bachelor and an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak all his life Shri Ashok Singhal adopted an aggressive style in the " KAR SEWAK" Ram Janam Bhoomi Andolan campaign in the build up to the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December, 1992. Grewal said that Shri Ashok Singhal was a metallurgy engineering graduate from Banaras Hindu University and he pitchforked the organisation in the Ayodhya Ram temple movement and sought to internationalise it by recruiting supporters and organising branches world wide. The overseas supporters contributed immensely to the VHP campaign.