Gwalior: Senior RSS leader Bhaiyaji Joshi Sunday said the Sangh will work towards creating awareness to ensure 100 per cent voting. The three-day conclave of the RSS’ Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), which concluded here Sunday, also discussed running religious awakening campaigns and promoting nationalism, another RSS leader said. The ABPS is the highest decision-making body of Sangh, the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Joshi, who is the general secretary of the RSS, also observed that time has come to expand Sangh’s work in a big way, which insiders said is the Hindutva fountainhead’s strategy to expand its footprint in rural India, which is facing agrarian issues, with a human face and a religious touch.
“The RSS’s work has reached a certain level. We feel now that time has come to take a big leap in terms of expansion of the work,” Joshi told reporters here on the final day of the ABPS. He said Sangh always believed that maximum voting should take place. “Voters in the country are intelligent enough (to understand) the issues to vote for. We will work for creating awareness to ensure 100 per cent voting,” he said.
The Election Commission Sunday announced that the Lok Sabha polls will be held in seven phases in the country, beginning April 11. “Our society has started thinking more clearly over a period of time, and the people now know who works for the nation’s betterment,” Joshi added.
A Sangh leader said top brass of the organisation discussed sending volunteers to villages connected with main roadways of districts to run “Mukh Marg Karya” (MMK) drive for “bringing social and economic change and uplifting the people”.
The ABPS has also decided that a local level RSS leader would form a team of 10-15 people with Sangh leanings, to promote education and cleanliness among other things in their respective villages, he said.