Overview
- Bhagwat spoke at a Deendayal Upadhyaya event in Yavatmal and framed his address as a call for Antyodaya, the idea of centring the poorest in development planning.
- He named six essentials every person or family should be guaranteed: adequate food, clothing, shelter, basic education, healthcare, and the means to offer hospitality.
- The RSS chief said policymakers must rethink development models if economic growth fails to reach marginalised communities and reduce the gap between the most and least developed.
- On agriculture, he urged mixed and organic farming, stronger animal husbandry and greater use of local seeds and inputs to help farmers avoid debt and become self-reliant.
- Bhagwat rooted his prescriptions in Integral Humanism and Gandhi’s ethic and presented the speech as a moral and policy prompt rather than a formal government announcement.