Ruling BJP's ideological parent aims to restore India's lost glory

9 million volunteers help support Hindu nationalist party and leader Narendra Modi

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign event in Varanasi on May 13. © Reuters

KIRAN SHARMA, SATOSHI IWAKI and NUPUR SHAW, Nikkei staff writers

NEW DELHI -- As India votes in its six-week-long general election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to draw huge crowds of enthusiastic supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party at roadshows and rallies. One of the key forces behind this mobilization across the country is the party's ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

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