With the influence of Dalit-led political parties at an ebb in the Hindi heartland, the top leadership of the RSS will congregate from Sunday in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj to discuss ways to reinforce the Sangh Parivar’s Dalit outreach.
The four-day meeting will also review the Sangh’s preparations to celebrate the centenary of its founding in 2025, especially its three-year plan, put in place in 2021, to expand its shakha network from 55,000 to one lakh by 2024, which incidentally coincides with the year of the next Lok Sabha polls. The RSS will further discuss some of the issues its chief, Mohan Bhagwat, flagged in his Vijayadashami address in Nagpur on October 5. These are – integrating women’s participation in the mainstream of RSS activities, push for education in the mother tongue, and dialogue with Muslim intellectuals and clergy, its publicity chief Sunil Ambekar said in Prayagraj on Saturday.
The venue of the consultations is significant since the BJP, on the back of the work of its ideological parent, the RSS, made substantial inroads into UP’s Scheduled Caste voter base in the February-March Assembly polls and would like to bolster it in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
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