Subash Chouhan was the national President of the Bajrang Dal (army of Hanuman), a Hindutva organization in India that is the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
[6][better source needed] In July 2009 Subash Chouhan said two of the Bajrang Dal's main concerns were a complete ban on cow slaughtering and protecting poor people from conversion.
[7] In January 2008 he condemned a political science textbook named Indian Polity which described the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bajarang Dal, Shiv Sena and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as "extensions of terrorist organisations".
He said of the star "Shah Rukh has behaved like an agent of Pakistan by advocating the cause of Pakistani cricketers participating in the Indian Premier League".
Speaking at the rally, Subash Chouhan called the government action a violation of the constitution whose purpose was to woo voters from minority groups.
According to the Organizer, the official weekly newspaper of the RSS, the recent violence was "a spontaneous reaction by local people against missioners adamant on conversion".
[14] In February 2012 as National President of the Bajarang Dal he attended a ceremony at Sundergarh, Orissa organised by the VHP at which 3,127 people were converted to Hinduism.
[16] However Angana Chatterji, the co-convenor of the tribunal, reported in a letter to the National Human Rights Commission of India that Chouhan had said "if I continue, the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad would strongly challenge and repress me".
The VHP and Bajrang Dal laid the blame on the Naveen Patnaik government, which they said had ignored warnings and failed to provide adequate security.
[20] The August killings of VHP leaders triggered a surge of anti-Christian mob violence in Kandhamal district.
Subash Chouhan said the attack was organized by minorities led by a Christian in order to stir up trouble between the police and the innocent tribals.
[22] In October 2009 a number of US lawmakers wrote to Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik voicing their concern about continued violence against Christians in the state.
He described the bill as having been planned and conceived at the bidding of foreign powers as part of an "international conspiracy to target the Hindu society, its leaders and organisations".