Tarun Vijay, the longest serving Chief Editor of the RSS mouthpiece Panchjanya , has been appointed director of the BJP’s newly created nationalistic think-tank – the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.
Vijay, who is also a columnist with Timesofindia.com , joined Panchjanya in 1979. He has been Chief Editor for around 20 years. The first editor of the 60-year-old Panchjanya was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Vijay has also been inducted as a special invitee to the BJP national executive. He has been asked by the RSS top brass to form the think-tank on the ideological lines of nationalism – “uncompromising and unapologetic” – as Vijay put it.