Why the visit of Modis at the headquarters of RSS, a first for an Indian PM, is significant

The BJP is also finalizing its new national president. The outgoing JP Nadda has held the position since January 2020. Traditionally, the RSS played a key role in the choice of the National President of the BJP.

In addition, Modis grooming as a politician is imbued with the RSS. He became a pracharak From the outfit to Ahmedabad in 1972.

Addressing Theprint, an RSS official from Nagpur, who did not want to be appointed, said that last year, an image was created that is not well between the RSS and the BJP after a comment from Nadda.

However,, the Prime Minister's visit today at the RSS headquarters shows how strong the links are between these two. This year is special because we are finishing 100 years and visiting the PMS here will help us bring our ideology to many places.

The political commentator Hemant Desai also considers the visit as an effort towards coordination.

The RSS never liked a personality worship in the BJP that we now see in the direction of the PM Modi. Mohan Bhagwat had made statements indicating the dissatisfaction of the outfits with this type of personality worship. After the Lok Sabha elections, we can see the BJP and the RSS trying to work more closely. Modi also made statements renting the RSS, he told Theprint.

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With a Prime Minister going to the RSS headquarters, the BJP also gives the message that Hindutva and nationalism are one and the same thing, he added.

Modis' pre-tested visit to Nagpur occurs around 10 days after the city has seen common clashes. Vishva Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal protest to demand the elimination of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzebs from Khuldabad to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

Tensions appeared after demonstrators burn a fabric with Islamic holy inscriptions. The chief minister of Maharashtra, becomes Fadnavis, rejected them as rumors.

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Last year, the RSS did not plunge into the BJPS campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Nadda had also rocked feathers saying that the BJP had become self -sufficient and had reached a point where he could operate without the help of his ideological parent.

As the survey results have been announced, the BJP has always become the single party, but its counting went significantly from 303 seats in 2019 to 240 in 2024.

Following the result, the RSS was closely involved in the preparation of BJPs for the assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra, which the party won with historical terms.

A BJP leader based in Nagpur who did not want to be appointed to Theprint: the relationship between the RSS and the BJP is that of the father and the son. If the son does not listen to the father several times, the father abandons and leaves the son to his own fate. But, if the son is really in trouble, the father immediately intensified to help. This is what the RSS did for the party in the polls of the Assembly.

He also declared that the RSS was closely involved in the functioning of the governments of the States led by the BJP, with regular meetings between its civil servants and the ministers of the BJP.

In February, speaking to the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Delhi, Modi had praised RSS's efforts to the construction of the nation. He also said that it was because of the RSS that he was fortunate to be associated with marathi language and culture.

Then, earlier this month, speaking on the Podcast Lex Fridman, the PM said that the lessons of the Ramakrishna mission, Swami Vivekananda and the Philosophy focused on the RSS service fed it with a philosophy focused on the service. He said he had found a lifespan because of the RSS.

(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)

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