Overview

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi served as chief guest at the RSS centenary event at Dr Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi on October 1 and delivered an address.
• The Rs 100 coin features Bharat Mata in varada mudra with a lion alongside the national emblem, which Modi said marks the first appearance of Bharat Mata on Indian currency.
• The commemorative postage stamp depicts RSS swayamsevaks marching in the 1963 Republic Day Parade, highlighting a moment the organisation cites in its public history.
• Modi praised the RSS’s 100-year journey as one of sacrifice, service, discipline and nation-building, noting it had faced bans and false cases yet maintained faith in constitutional institutions.
• He linked the centenary to Vijayadashami and the RSS’s 1925 founding, describing the Sangh’s shakhas as spaces for character formation and its affiliates as working under a ‘Nation First’ ethos.