The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, made his first visit from the re -election to the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur on Sunday, local media reported.
Several main leaders of the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party of Modi, including Modi itself, cut their teeth in the RSS, whose millions of members perform paramilitary exercises and prayer meetings.
The organization campaigns for India to be declared a Hindu nation, instead of a secular, as consecrated in its constitution, and critics accuse it of promoting sectarian divisions.
RSS standing soldiers had intervened to help Modi recover the impulse in last year’s elections after facing electoral fatigue and some resistance of a resurgistic opposition, before being chosen as the prime minister for the third time. Weeks later, India had raised a prohibition of decades that public officials were members of the RSS of the extreme right.
The visit marks the first time that a acting prime minister has visited the central base of the RSS, according to Times of India and The impression.
However, Business standard The RSS leader cited Sunil Ambekar, saying that Modi was not the first prime minister to visit the group’s headquarters, such as the former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee also had done the same during his mandate. NDTV reported the same.
Modi began his day visiting Smruti Mandir, the monument of the founder of RSS Keshav Baliram Hedgewar at the Nagpur Reshim Bagp, to mark his birth anniversary. The Indian prime minister was accompanied by the head of RSS Mohan Bhagwat, and the two saw having an “informal conversation” on the margin, The impression noted.
He also visited Deekshabhoomi, where Indian leader Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and his followers had embraced Buddhism.
“DR Babasheb Ambedkar has given us a constitution that guarantees our dignity and equality. For this, generations of Indians will thank you, ”the Prime Minister published in X.
Modi praised the RSS workers for their contribution to humanitarian efforts: “their selfless services have been evident in times of floods, earthquakes and, more recently, in Kumbh Mela.
“We advance with the mantra of life of life to the nation and duty to our country. Therefore, it does not matter how big or small the task, in any field, the Sangh (RSS) volunteers work selflessly,” he said he said. Times of India.
“Thanks to the people of Nagpur for their love,” published the leader of BJP in X later in the day.
India becoming a global southern voice: Modi
The Indian prime minister said that RSS had now become a huge bainly tree that symbolizes longevity and immortality. “This is not the common tree, it is RSS, the tree of culture and immortal modernization of India.” The Hindu He cited him as saying.
Modi said his country was advancing and “breaking the mentality of slavery.” Observing the help efforts of India for Myanmar in the recent disastrous earthquake that has killed more than 1,700, he said that India was “becoming the voice of the Global South.”
“Our biggest treasure is young, the ability to rise has increased, innovating new things and leaving a brand in the world of startups,” said Modi. The prime minister pointed out that the period from 2025 to 2047 would be crucial for the development of India.
According The impressionModi’s visit comes at a time when BJP’s leadership has indicated a truce with RSS, his ideological father, after reports of a certain friction last year.
BJP is also in the process of finishing its new national president, the report said, adding that RSS has traditionally played a key role in the election.
Recently, Nagpur received public attention when the authorities held the touch of indefinite remaining in parts of the city after more than a dozen police officers were injured in the clashes caused by the demand of a Hindu group for the elimination of the tomb of the Mughal rule of the seventeenth century Aungzeb.
During his visit to Nagpur today, Modi also opened several projects.
He put the basis for the premium Madhav Netalaya center, an extension of the Netalay Times of India reported.
The Indian prime minister also inaugurated an airstrip for aerial vehicles notmanship in Solar Defense and Aerospace Limited in Bazargaon near Nagpur, The Hindu saying.
He added that Modi would also launch development projects related to energy, oil and gas sectors, rail, road, education and housing worth more than 337 billion Indian rupees in Bilaspur of Chhattisgarh.
