The big takeaway from the RSS conclave in Bengaluru is that it no longer seeks to depend on its affiliates to achieve its core objectives. Instead, it needs to nourish and grow its own flock, writes Manish Anand. (Photo: Aroop Mishra/The Quint)

By Manish Anand

The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is turning 100 — and putting the house in order has emerged as the top concern of the Sangh Parivar at the end of its three-day-long annual deliberations in Bengaluru recently.

There is a growing concern among the RSS top brass that its affiliates, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are not contributing strength to achieve the organisation’s core agenda of ‘One Nation, One People’ (and ‘One Culture’)—and so, it needs to nourish and grow its own flock to do so.

“The outfit feels that the progress on the key agenda of the RSS is way too slow. This requires improving coordination with the governments where the BJP is in power, including the Centre. In some of the states where the BJP is in power, it has been flagged that the coordination is lacking,” a source explains talking to The Quint.

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