RSS is capable of changing along with time: Mohan Bhagawat

Nagpur, Mar 22 (ANI): Newly elected Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagawat has said that the RSS is capable of changing along with time, and would not deviate from its avowed goals.

Addressing RSS functionaries here on Saturday, he said, “We are among those organisations which easily changes with time. Our organisation, the RSS, is more dynamic than other organisations, we can even change our chief within minutes, and the organisation changes itself with consensus. Though we can change so fast, we always keep our eye on our goals,” Bhagawat said.

A veterinary doctor by profession, the 59-year-old Bhagawat replaced K S Sudarshan, who was holding the top post for almost nine years.

The election of Bhagawat came on the second day of a three-day RSS conclave at Nagpur.he change of guard in the Sangh Parivar hierarchy came at the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, an apex council of all Sangh Parivar outfits and frontal Organisations.

Bhagwat has held various responsibilities including district prachark for Akola, provincial pracharak for Nagpur and zonal pracharak for Bihar before being made joint secretary. (ANI)

RSS chief K S Sudarshan announces retirement

Nagpur, Mar 21 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RRS) chief K S Sudarshan today announced his retirement from the post of party chief, paving way for Mohan Bhagwat’s elevation to the top post.

Sudarshan’s decision came as a three-day conclave of the RSS has begun here to chalk out the strategy for the upcoming general elections.

Kuppahalli Sitaramayya Sudarshan was nine when he first attended an RSS shakha. He was appointed as a pracharak in 1954.

Only full-time members of RSS can become pracharaks. His first posting as a pracharak was in Raigarh district. In 1964, he was made the prant pracharak of Madhya Bharat at a fairly young age.

In 1969, he was appointed convener of the heads of All-India Organisations’. This was followed by a stint in the North-East (1977) and he took over as the chief of the Boudhik Cell (the RSS think-tank) two years later.

Since 1990, Sudarshan has been a joint general secretary of the organisation. He has the rare distinction of having held both posts of sharirik (physical exercises) and baudhik (intellectual) pramukh (chief) on different occasions. (ANI)