RSS to overview centenary preparations, move a decision on Ram temple | India News

Mohan Bhagwat (Photo: PTI)

Mohan Bhagwat (Photo: PTI)


The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will maintain a three-day session of its prime decision-making physique, the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, in Nagpur to debate how the organisation might improve the variety of its ‘shakhas’ from 68,000 to 100,000 in its centenary 12 months in 2025.


The assembly comes forward of the Lok Sabha polls and can talk about points prevailing within the nation and move a decision on the Ram temple, stated its all-India publicity head, Sunil Ambekar, on Wednesday. The RSS is the ideological dad or mum of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The assembly, from March 15 to 17, is being held at Nagpur’s Reshim Bagh, the headquarters of the RSS, after six years. A complete of 1,529 representatives from 32 RSS-affiliated organisations will seemingly attend the assembly.


The RSS will full the centenary of its founding on Vijayadashami in 2025, which can fall on October 2. The organisation dates its founding to the Vijayadashami day in 1925. During the three-day programme, Ambekar stated, a decision on how the “positive atmosphere” created after the consecration of the Ram temple will be taken ahead might be handed.


The Sangh may even launch a press release to have a good time the tercentenary of 18th-century ruler Ahilyabai Holkar, which might be noticed between May 2024 and April 2025, the RSS stated. Holkar is understood to have contributed to the development of a number of temples and donated to temples in Varanasi, Gaya, Somnath, Ayodhya, Mathura, and different pilgrimage centres.


The election to select members of the Sangh’s ‘Akhil Bhartiya Karyakarni Mandal’ (nationwide govt) and its ‘sar karyawah’ (basic secretary) might be held through the assembly, he stated. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J P Nadda, the heads and organising secretaries of three dozen Sangh outfits and different RSS-affiliated organisations will take part within the Pratinidhi Sabha, Ambekar stated.

First Published: Mar 13 2024 | 10:11 PM IST