Vasantrao Oak

Vasantrao Oak (13 May 1914 – 9 August 2000) was one of the earliest pracharaks (transl. publicists) and leaders of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Hindu Nationalist organisation in India.^[1][2][3][4]

In October 1946, Oak along with Dadarao Parmarth and Krishna Paranjape established first shakhas, daily meetups of RSS, in Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Shillong which were part of Assam Province.^{[5][6][1][7][8]} Oak had played an important role in establishing Bharatiya Jana Sangh along with Syama Prasad Mukherjee.^[3][9]

He contested the 1957 Lok Sabha election from Chandni Chowk constituency as a Jan Sangh candidate and lost to Radha Raman of Indian National Congress.^[10][11]