Overview

• Invitation cards and multiple reports say Dr. Kamaltai Gavai will be the chief guest at the Amravati Vijayadashami/centenary event on October 5.
• The programme is slated at Shrimati Narsamma Mahavidyalaya Maidan, Kiran Nagar, with Prajna Pravah chief J. Nandakumar listed as the main speaker.
• Organisers identify Kamaltai Gavai in her role as head of the Shri Dadasaheb Gawai Charitable Trust, reflecting the RSS plan to tap prominent local figures across roughly 150 city events.
• The appearance carries symbolic weight given the Gavai family’s Ambedkarite background and recent criticism over CJI B. R. Gavai’s oral courtroom remark about praying to Lord Vishnu.
• The centenary year opens with Mohan Bhagwat’s address in Nagpur on October 2, alongside plans for over one lakh Hindu Sammelans, door-to-door outreach, and contact with millions of households; a later report published a purported letter claiming she declined the invite, which other outlets had not corroborated.