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Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) is a Hindu organization operating globally established on 13 October 2002 by seekers of Sanatan Sanstha. The organization claims that it "stands as a common platform for all Hindus to unite breaking all the barriers" and its website carries the slogan "For establishment of the Hindu Nation".

Descriptions of ideology and size
Christophe Jaffrelot, a political scientist, considers the HJS to be an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The HJS, whose name has been translated as Committee for Hindu Renaissance, has been described as a right-wing group and has protested numerous issues. Reporting a HJS protest the Deccan Herald described it as an "obscure ... small band of fanatics".

Campaigns
The HJS complained to the police against the exhibition of three nude representations of Hindu deities Krishna and Shiva drawn by Jose Pereira, in an exhibition at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research a Jesuit centre in Goa. The HJS claimed that the "Christian artist has drawn derogatory paintings of the Hindu deities", it demanded the withdrawal of these paintings. After they were withdrawn it the HJS called for closing of the entire exhibition. According to Deccan Herald no reason was given for this new demand. The exhibition was subsequently suspended temporarily.. It describes the incident as a manifestation of "venomous right-wing propaganda". In 2011 HJS's protests resulted in postponing screening of a film tribute to M. F. Husain the late painter whom the organisation had earlier sued for his allegedly anti-Hindu depictions of Hindu deities. It has protested against the proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill. "Ranaragini" a wing of the HJS, in a protest in Goa, demanded that advertisement hoardings that "portray women in a vulgar and indecent manner" be taken off. It claimed that violence against women was related to their depiction in such hoardings as "sex objects"; Opposition from HJS along with Divya Jagruthi Pratishthan and the Shiv Sena and a Christian organisation caused a session on LGBT tourism in Goa to be dropped from a tourism fair there. It presented a memorandum to Goa office of the Russian consul urging the Russian government to revoke a demolition order issued against the largest Hindu temple and Vedic centre in Russia.

In June 2012, the HJS arranged the five-day All-India Hindu Convention at Ponda, Goa. This attracted attendance from a range of individuals and activists representing various groups and, according to its chief organiser, was intended to "... chalk out a blue print for the protection of dharma and establishment of a Hindu Nation".

Lokmat reports a demand made by HJS that those involved in vandalism in Mumbai on 11 August 2012 be booked under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, vandalism occurred during protests organised by the Raza Academy, during which members of Sunni Jamaitul Ulma and Jamate Raza-e-Mustafa were also present. The Samiti's co-ordinator is quoted by Indo-Asian News Service urging the state government that considering the earlier violent record of the Raza Academy such as "burning policemen alive in Bhivandi" and violent protests against "Denmark" it sent a recommendation to the central government that the organisation be banned.