Overview

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute on X, calling Swami Vivekananda’s vision a guiding light that instills pride in India’s heritage and urges a path of service and compassion.
• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hailed Vivekananda as a ‘Rashtrarishi’ whose proclamation of Sanatan Dharma through Vedanta awakened India’s self-respect and called on young people to embrace his ‘Utho, Jago’ mantra.
• West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invoked Vivekananda’s ‘religion of humanity’ message to call for harmony across caste, class and faith and highlighted her government’s work securing his Kolkata residence for the Ramakrishna Mission.
• Vivekananda’s global impact began with his 1893 Chicago address at the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the 1897 founding of the Ramakrishna Mission to extend his guru’s spiritual ideals.
• India observes July 4 as his death anniversary in memory of his final meditation at Belur Math in 1902, a ceremony that reaffirms his enduring legacy in education, humanitarian service and spiritual discourse.