Mahendra Kumar

Mahendra Kumar (died 25 April 2020)[1] was the convener of the Karnataka, India, branch of the Bajrang Dal, an Indian Hindu youth organisation.

He claimed that he was incarcerated for 42 days in Mangalore before being released on conditional bail by Karnataka High Court Justice Ashok B. Hinchigeri on 25 October 2008, and was used as a scapegoat by the Bharatiya Janata Party regime to "save the government from further embarrassment after the church attacks and on instructions from the Sangh Parivar leaders.

[4] The Bajrang Dal were reported to have stated that they were not against Christianity in the region but were offended by the alleged forcible conversions.

[8] Kumar resigned from Bajrang Dal on 1 October 2008 after witnessing a Hindu woman who had decided to commit suicide with her three children but was saved by Christian missionaries.

I joined Bajrang Dal so that we could mobilise the youth for a good cause, but at the end of the day all our concepts were politically motivated.