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  • BJP chief JP Nadda to attend RSS meeting

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: With key Assembly elections lined up in five states, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) will hold its annual meeting in Hyderabad from January 5-7. It will be attended by BJP chief JP Nadda and the party’s general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh. 

    The meeting will take stock of the prevailing situation in the country in diverse areas, with heads of all the affiliates attending deliberations.

    The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat along with the outfit’s national general secretary Dattatreya Hosbole will be leading the deliberations, while all the top functionaries of the organisation will also participate.

    “Functonaries of 36 organisations, which are concerned with educational and intellectual activities, besides economic, services and other areas, will take part in the annual meeting at Bhagyanagar (Hyderabad),” said the communication department head of the RSS, Sunil Ambekar.

    Ambekar stated that the representatives of the various organisations will share their views on the contemporary situation along with the works being undertaken by them.

    “Environment, family, and social amity among others will have special focus during the deliberatons,” said the communications head.

  • Savarkar era has arrived: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat  

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  The era of Savarkar has arrived in the country after 2014, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh supremo Mohan Bhagwat said, asserting that the Hindu Mahasabha leader’s vision for the nation was now being realised. 

    At a book release on Tuesday, Bhagwat said Savarkar had envisaged national and strategic interests as same, which, he claimed, after 2014 is becoming visible. “Savarkar’s vision for Independence had envisaged all being equal, and convergence of the national and strategic interests. We can say that Savarkar era has arrived in the country,” he said after releasing a book on Savarkar by Uday Mahurkar and Charayu Pandit. 

    Bhagwat asserted Savarkar was a social reformer, and added that B R Ambedkar too had acknowledged his works for social amity in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Defence Rajnath Singh exhorted the role of Savarkar in India’s freedom struggle and added that he was vilified by vested interests. Singh said the repeated claims that the Hindu Mahasabha leader had signed a mercy petition to the British government for release from life term were part of the motivated campaign orchestrated by the “Marxist and Leninist groups”. 

    “The fact is the mercy petition was submitted on the exhortation of Mahatma Gandhi,” Singh said, describing Savarkar as a social revolutionary as well as a hardcore nationalist. Savarkar had forewarned that the demand for the right to self-determination would lay the seeds of the partition of the country, he said. 

    “Savarkar had been portrayed as a Nazi and Fascist, which he wasn’t, by the vested interests after Independence. He believed in healthy democracy, while believing that the nation is a cultural entity, and all are equal in duties and rights,” the minister added.

  • RSS national coordination meeting on September 3 and 4 in Nagpur

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A national coordination meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will be held in Nagpur on September 3 and 4 with top representatives of the VHP and some other affiliates slated to take part in the meet, a senior RSS functionary said on Wednesday.

    RSS Akhil Bhartiya Prachar Pramukh (media/publicity wing head) Sunil Ambekar said the coordination meeting (samanvaya baithak) of the Nagpur-headquartered organisation and its affiliates will be a small informal gathering in view of the prevailing coronavirus pandemic.

    “Every year in September a comprehensive meeting is held. However, due to the coronavirus outbreak a small meeting was held last year and this year also a small meeting will be held in Nagpur,” he said without disclosing the agenda of the two-day gathering.

    “Some Akhil Bharatiya (all-India) RSS office-bearers and a few of the national-level sanghatan mantris (organisational general secretaries) of the VHP, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and Vidya Bharti (all affiliates), among other organisations, will take part in the meeting,” Ambekar said.

    He said a full-fledged coordination meeting will take place in early 2022 if the coronavirus situation stabilises by then.

  • No more displacement, RSS General Secretary assures J&K Pandits

    By Express News Service
    NEW DELHI:  Citing the example of resettlement of Jews in Israel, newly elected Sahkaryawah (general secretary) of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Dattatreya Hosbole on Wednesday told Kashmiri Pandits that Jammu and Kashmir is at an important historical juncture after the dilution of the Article 370 and abrogation of Article 35A.

    He said they should resolve to work for the revival of their culture in their roots. Stating that peace and social amity are key to reclaim past glory of the region, Hosbole stressed on India’s religious, cultural and linguistic diversity.

    “Kashmiri Pandits have faced seven displacements, while being victims of violence and religious extremism. This will remain the last displacements of the Pandits. The government fulfilled long cherished demands for the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35 A.

    But now, people have to take the work forward to reclaim the past glory,” said Hosbole in a video-conference speech from Assam to the three-day long Navreh festival organised in J&K.