NEW DELHI: The annual meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) highest decision-making body, the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), slated to be held in Nagpur on March 15 will set the stage to draft the organisation’s roadmap for the future and identify focus areas as it prepares for the centenary celebrations next year.
The meet of the RSS, the ideological fount of the ruling BJP, comes ahead of the Lok Sabha polls to be announced shortly and close on the heels of the Sangh’s two key demands being met; the consecration of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya; and the passage of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Uttarakhand, which is expected to be replicated by several other Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states.
A third ideological demand that the Sangh aggressively campaigned for, the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, was met in 2019, when Parliament passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, bifurcating the state into two union territories and reading down Article 370 that gave the state its own constitution and decision-making rights for all matters except defence, communications and foreign affairs.
According to a functionary aware of the details, the ABPS, which will be attended by the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, senior Sangh functionaries, heads of all its offshoots, including the BJP, is likely to pass resolutions on the construction of the Ram Temple and the UCC, which is being implemented by a clutch of states.
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