Overview
- RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said the Sangh cannot be banned just because politicians wish it, asserting that society has accepted the organisation.
- He urged politicians to learn from the past, noting the three historical bans on the RSS and referring to their eventual reversals.
- The remarks capped a three-day national executive meeting in Jabalpur, attended by 397 of 407 delegates.
- The RSS outlined centenary-year outreach that includes roughly 80,000 Hindu Sammelans along with door-to-door and district-level engagements.
- Responding to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s fresh ban demand made on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary, Hosabale also said ties with the BJP remain steady and called for a population policy to address what he termed demographic imbalance.