The three-day meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the apex decision-making body of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), began near Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Friday.
Around 1,200 prominent leaders or office-bearers from across the country, including Sarsanghchalak (RSS chief) Mohan Bhagwat and Sarkaryawah Dattatreya Hosabale, will participate in the closed-door program to be held in Pirana village. Addressing the media on the first day of the meeting, RSS’s Saha Sarkaryavah (Joint General Secretary) Manmohan Vaidya said, “One of the key areas of the meeting is the expansion of the organisation’s base.
He said that the RSS runs about 60,000 daily shakhas across the country and 97.5 per cent of the shakhas have started functioning again after the easing of COVID-19 related restrictions.
“School or college students are 61 per cent of the participants in these 60,000 shakhas. This shows that the number of youth taking interest in RSS is increasing. Of the total 2,303 cities in the country, 44 per cent have branches. This shows that our spread is increasing,” Vaidya said.
“There are 59,000 mandals in the country. Each mandal consists of 10 to 12 villages. In the next two years, the RSS will try to expand its base and establish shakhas in all mandals. Our work in that direction came to a standstill due to Coronavirus. Now we are planning to achieve this in the next two years.”
According to Vaidya, apart from those joining the RSS through shakhas, a large number of people are expressing their interest to be a part of it through the “Join RSS” campaign being run on the organization’s website. 1 lakh to 1.25 lakh people expressed their desire to join the RSS every year, he said, adding that people from Malwa (central India) and West Bengal had sent more requests in 2021 than other regions.
During this three-day meeting, a detailed plan for expanding the base of the RSS will be prepared. Other topics that will be discussed include creating harmony in the society and promoting organic farming. Vaidya said.
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