Some day, anyone opposing Sangh will join Sangh: Hosabale

Sangh does not believe in opposing anyone and it is confident that someday, anyone opposing the Sangh work would join the Sangh fold, said Dattatreya Hosabale, the general secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

“In the last 100 years, Sangh, as a movement of national reconstruction, has travelled from neglect and ridicule to curiosity and acceptance,” said Hosabale, the SarKaryavah, the No 2 in the hierarchy in the Sangh-parivar after Dr Mohan Bhagwat, who is the Sarsanghchalak or the RSS chief. 

In a message posted on RSS website and its social media platforms coinciding with Guda Padwa festivities, Hosabale said that the progressive unfoldment of this movement and philosophy is nothing short of a miracle. “It was not easy to explain the idea of Hindutva and the idea of Rashtra when most of the English educated elites were influenced by the European idea of nationalism, which was narrow, parochial and exclusivist,” he said paying tributes to Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, popularly known as Doctorji (1 April 1889 – 21 June 1940), who founded the RSS in 1925.

Speaking in contemporary context, he said: “While there is a tendency to look at everything from a political prism, Sangh is focussing on the cultural awakening of the society and creating a strong network of right-minded people and organisations.” 

The call of Pach-Parivartan - the five fold programme for transformation will continue to be the focus of RSS-Sangh Parivar in the years to come.  “While expanding the Shakha network, Sangh has focussed on inculcating civic duties, an environment friendly lifestyle, socially harmonious conduct, familial values and systemic transformation based on the sense of selfhood so that everybody contributes to the larger cause of taking the nation to the pinnacle of glory,” he said.