RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat talks about women empowerment on the occasion of Dussehra

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is running Vijayadashami program in Nagpur. Addressing the event, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that now the world is listening to India. Before this address, Mohan Bhagwat worshiped the weapons. This has been the tradition of this day. The Sangh was established on this day.

Mohan Bhagwat said that we have to empower our women. Society cannot progress without women. Our reputation in the world has increased. The way we helped Sri Lanka and our stand during the Ukraine-Russia conflict shows that we are being heard.

“It is imperative to give women independence to work and equal rights in all spheres,” Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said.

“So, beginning with changes within our own families, we will have to take it to society through the organisation. Until women’s equal participation is ensured, the efforts aimed at the progress of the country will not be successful,” Bhagwat said in his speech.

“The presence of women who have been achievers, part of the intelligentsia and source of inspiration in RSS functions has been a norm in the Sangh since the time of Doctor Saab (Dr K B Hedgewar). Anusiyabai Kale was present at our event at that time. Then, the chief of the Indian Women’s Conference, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, has also been part of our shivir (camp). In December 1934 also, the chief guest was a woman and it has been going on since,” Bhagwat said.

“After the Emergency, an Akola event of the RSS also had a woman as chief guest. I was a pracharak there at the time. Kumudtai Rangnekar from Aurangabad had been the chief guest at that Vijayadashami event,” he added.

Bhagwat said that "society is made up of both men and women, and we don’t debate who is superior”. “Because we know that without either, society cannot exist, and nothing can be created. They are complementary; this is Indian philosophy,” he said.

“So the work of nation-building is done by different sets of organisational units for men and women, but in all social work (taken up by the Sangh), men and women work together…During the time of Doctor Saab, for the objective of character building, two separate units were created. But in every work, men and women come together and complement each other,” Bhagwat said.

If society has to be organised, women and their “maternal power” cannot be ignored, Bhagwat said. “We need to strengthen them. We call them mother, we imagine them as jagat janani (creators of the universe). But while imagining these things, I don’t know what crept into us that we limited their sphere of activity. And later when foreign invaders came, these restrictions got legitimacy. The invaders went away but we continued with the restrictions. We never liberated them,” he pointed out.

The RSS chief said- "Our economy is returning to normalcy-world economists are predicting that it will move ahead. Even in sports, our players are making the country proud."

Further Mohan Bhagwat said that whatever hinders our Sanatan Dharma, it is created by those forces which are against the unity and progress of India. They spread fake stories, encourage anarchy, engage in criminal acts, promote terror, conflict and social unrest. He further said that it is a myth that English is important for career.

The RSS has invited renowned mountaineer Santosh Yadav as the chief guest this time for its annual Dussehra event. This is the first time in 97 years that the RSS has invited a woman to its programme. Santosh Yadav is the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice. For the first time she did this climb in May 1992 and then in May 1993 she repeated this history. She is also the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face.

Santosh Yadav was awarded the National Adventure Award in 1994 and Padma Shri in 2000.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also attended the event. RSS organizes a big program on this day. In which the RSS chief worships the weapons. This is followed by his speech, which gives a glimpse of the future strategy of the Sangh.

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