PM Modi Salutes RSS for Its 100-Year Journey in Service of Nation; Calls It 'World's Biggest NGO'
Prime Minister Modi praised the RSS for its century of disciplined volunteer service, calling it the world’s largest NGO with millions of members dedicated to nation-building.
- On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the RSS’s 100-year journey as ‘very proud and glorious’ during his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, Delhi.
- Beginning as a grassroots movement, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar founded RSS in 1925 in Nagpur, India, promoting cultural unity and national pride over a century.
- For 100 years, RSS swayamsevaks have fulfilled the resolve of ‘vyakti nirman’ and ‘rashtra nirman’ for the welfare of ‘matrubhoomi’.
- Modi said the country is proud of RSS’s 100 years of ‘dedicated and glorious’ journey, adding, ‘It will keep inspiring us’, and remembered all volunteers who contributed to national service.
- Ahead of future debates, RSS influence is seen as the ideological wellspring of the Bharatiya Janata Party, with speculation about further internal changes, Modi noted.
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