Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Different ways of worship shouldn't be reason for conflicts: RSS chief

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said while people may have different ways of worshipping god, their intent is the same

RSS meet to focus on social harmony, developing sense of self-reliance

A key annual meeting of the RSS leadership will begin here Sunday, with the deliberations focusing on how to create an atmosphere of social harmony, motivating people to perform their duties and making them self-reliant. The three-day meeting will also review the progress of the organisation's expansion plan for the centenary of its foundation in 2025, head of media relations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sunil Ambekar had said. He had said that the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha will be attended by more than 1,400 office-bearers, including RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale. From the BJP, president J P Nadda and general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh will attend the meeting, he said. A select number of office-bearers of 34 RSS-linked organisations, including Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), will also attend it, he added. The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha is the highest decision-making body of the RSS, the ideological fountainhead

Village development should be a social activity: RSS chief Bhagwat

Village development should be a social activity, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday.

RSS, power & pitfalls

The Sangh is the most powerful it's ever been in its history. At the same time, one could also argue that it has never been so weak. How do we resolve that contradiction?

Best of BS Opinion: The perennially ruling party, 'Crewed' lessons & more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

The perennially ruling party

The BJP's narrative has strengthened over the past three decades, and it's easy to see why its dominance will continue

Slaughter industry uses water extensively, increases pollution: Bhagwat

Water consumption and pollution increases due to slaughter houses and the associated industry, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said here on Wednesday while appealing people to conserve water. He was speaking at 'SuJalam', a conference on water conservation organized by the Deendayal Shodh Sansthan and Madhya Pradesh Jan Abhiyan Parishad. "The killing of animals on a large scale increases water consumption. It is believed from scientific point of view that vegetarianism is good," he said. But he also added that it takes time to change habits. "Food habits cannot be imposed on anyone. People's mind changes slowly and they do change," Bhagwat said. The RSS chief also noted that those who eat non-vegetarian food in India follow rules and desist from eating it during the Hindu month of Shravan and on Thursdays. "A lot of water is used at slaughter houses and the associated industry and it also increases pollution," the RSS chief said. "It is not any person's ...

Sangh does not control anyone, it works to inspire people: Mohan Bhagwat

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said Sangh does only work to organise Shakha, influence people to work for nation

Enhancing mustard yields

Genetically tweaked variety can increase production. It would be unwise for India to deny its commercialisation

RSS-affiliate BKS plans farmer protest for first time in 8 years in Dec

The last time BKS organised a major farmer groundswell in the Capital was in 2013 when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance was in power

Religion-based population imbalance cannot to be ignored: RSS chief

Population imbalances lead to changes in geographical boundaries, says Mohan Bhagwat at a Vijayadasami event

Mohan Bhagwat's Dussehra address: Highlights from his last five speeches

In his annual Vijayadashami speech on Wednesday, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat sought a comprehensive new population policy applicable to everyone equally. Here we look at his speeches from the last 5 years

'Hindu' a geo-cultural identity, synonymous with 'Bharatiya': Mohan Bhagwat

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, while stating that there is "no particular definition of Hindu", said that the terms "Bharatiya" and "Hindu" are synonyms, and added that it is a "geo-cultural identity"

Mohan Bhagwat's overture to Muslims

Bhagwat's plea for social harmony tries to repackage the Hindutva project as accommodative and tolerant of minorities

Digvijaya Singh gets bail in defamation case related to comment on RSS

A court here on Saturday granted bail to senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh in a defamation case over his claim that people associated with the RSS were receiving money from Pakistan. The district and sessions court granted him bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 after he appeared before it. Speaking to reporters later, Singh claimed that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was not a registered organization, hence it could not be defamed. Speaking at a press conference in Bhind in 2019, Singh had allegedly claimed that some people associated with the RSS were receiving money from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistani spy agency. Avdhesh Singh Bhadoria, a lawyer, filed the defamation case against Singh after coming across the statement. The Congress leader had made the statement while referring to an alleged espionage racket that had been busted in Madhya Pradesh two years earlier. After a magistrate's court dismissed Bhadoria's defamation complaint against .

SKM leaders question composition of MSP panel, may give it a miss

Farmers' grouping has also been roiled by factional disputes since year-long agitation was called off

Maha: RSS affiliate slams Centre, NITI for 'anti-people' labour policies

Members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh affiliate Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh on Saturday slammed the NITI Aayog for its anti-people policies.

Prime Minister Modi's outreach to pasmanda Muslims: A strategic pause?

The invention of "pasmanda Muslims plus Hindutva" also serves to confuse and destabilise an Opposition still trapped in its old political rhetoric

Autonomous Hindutva could devour both India and the Bharatiya Janata Party

In a formally secular India, religion indeed seems to have become the opium of the people, a mass distraction from the transformative social agenda that the country needs

Gyanvapi mosque: The situation in Varanasi portends a replay of 1992

This is a reminder of the lesson that the most effective tool for mass mobilisation in India is to march against the minorities