RSS marches into centenary year with five point focus ( Organiser )

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is completing 100 years in 2025. Overcoming many difficulties in the long journey of the Sangh, the volunteers have expanded this work with the cooperation of the entire society. The 22 years after the formation of the Sangh was a period of struggle for independence. During this period, the Sangh swayamsevaks were actively participating in the freedom struggle and at the same time expanding the Sangh branches and strengthening the sense of ‘self’ within the society. Soon after the establishment of the Sangh, with the inspiration of Dr Hedgewar, in 1936, venerable Mavashi Kelkar started the Rashtra Sevika Samiti to work among women, on the lines of the Sangh. Before 1947, Swayamsevaks took the oath for Independence, and after Independence the goal has been the all-round upliftment of Hindu Rashtra. Naturally, while the work of the Sangh was expanding, the volunteers used to have comprehensive discussions about the happenings in various spheres of life and the positive changes that could be made in those areas. During the lifetime of Dr Hedgewar himself, we can witness his extensive participation in various social activities and his ideas for creating necessary structures from the Bharatiya point of view.

Inspired from this thought process of the Sangh, the volunteers started to weave a network of new organisations in various fields. Immediately after August 1947, students’ organisations were started under different local names and in 1948, this work was started all over the country under the same name. On July 9, 1949, the first organisation ‘Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’ was registered and the nationwide work was formally started. In the earlier period, many organisations were started by volunteers in various fields. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) was formed for the welfare of laborers. Today there are 36 such main organisations, besides there are other such organisations limited to some
provinces.

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