By Gyan Verma

Amid the ongoing seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, the ruling party’s ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has asked all its 36 affiliates, including the BJP, to become self-reliant and gradually raise and train their own workers.

This was told to The Federal by senior members of the Sangh Parivar.

Its other affiliates such as the trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) .have their own cadre and full-time workers and are not dependent on RSS pracharaks.

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