Maa Bharti’s son Freedom Fighter Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar had established the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 27 September 1925, on the day of the holy festival of Vijayadashami in the war of war. Due to this resolution, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been continuously engaged in strengthening the social, cultural and national structure of the country from the establishment of the establishment. By the way, the work done by the RSS has made the work done by the RSS to improve the lives of millions of people and break the chains of slavery and have made a positive contribution with full devotion and honesty in the creation of the country that became free. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been a precious contribution in the formation of nation building and Sanatan Dharma, due to the powerful nations of its top leadership, a strong nation, civilized rich society. The contribution that we can still see in different regions of the country today. To fulfill this objective, the RSS has worked day and night at various levels to promote social, cultural and national unity in the country.
However, from the era of the struggle for independence of the country to independent India, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the volunteers engaged in the service of the society have always been targeted by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its selflessness to fulfill the momentary political interests. Due to such a situation, the precious contribution of the union’s volunteers in the journey of freedom and strong nation building of the nation was ignored by some people sitting in power and system for decades. A few politicians of the country have even done the task of propagating the Sangh in the country and the world to please the people of a particular religion and to grab the chair of power of the Center and the states and all this continues by their followers even today. Even after the negative situation created by some politicians about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Sangh has always been continuing to function selflessly. The group of volunteers devoted to the nation building and society of the Union, continued to do their work for the benefit of the nation and society, and never even trying to take credit for these works.
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Although despite repeatedly creating a terrible situation by the government and administration in the era of governments suffering from political prejudice in front of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the volunteers of the Sangh have never dared, they have never turned away from doing the work of serving the nation and society, despite the opposite situation, the volunteers continued to do the work of the country and society. If seen fairly, due to this discrimination against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, people do not know much about the precious contribution made in the interest of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the interest of freedom and the subsequent era. By giving half-incomplete information on the basis of wrong facts to the people about his upside-down Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, some leaders and organizations have done a constant work of doing their interests by discounting the image of the Sangh. However, this era of social media has worked to create curiosity among the people about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has worked to eliminate the wrong beliefs created about the Sangh among the common people to a great extent on the basis of truth. Through social media, now the common people of the country and the world have also started getting information about the work of nation and social interest from time to time by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
People have come to know that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has emphasized on organizing the society and increasing cultural glory by lighting the lamp of nation building, unity and cultural awakening since the time of its establishment period. In the war of freedom, the Sangh did the task of imposing people with the sense of patriotism, while in independent India, the Sangh has done the work of increasing unity and confidence by trying to end the evils prevailing in the society. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has done the task of developing a very large section of the youth of the country to be in discipline, by reaching the remote areas of the country through its 55000 branches and crores of volunteers, to develop a sense of leadership and social responsibility.
Looking at the hallmark of some works of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had done the task of awakening the spirit of national consciousness in society, contributing to the freedom struggle movement in the war of freedom. Due to this, the volunteers of the Sangh worked to participate in the movements of the country’s freedom struggle selflessly. The Sangh worked to play an important role in protecting the lives and property of those, helping the displaced from Pakistan during the partition of the country in 1947. The volunteers of the Sangh have always done the work of helping people to help people in the era of epidemic, not caring about their lives. Even in the circumstances of the Sangh war, the brave sons of Maa Bharati have always been seen standing selflessly in the battlefield. The group of volunteers of the Sangh has been taking part in the work of social service and disaster management in the country on the basis of its discipline and training. The Sangh and its other associate organizations have periodically served to play an active role in the natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, fire, cyclonic storms etc.), war and other national crises from time to time.
In today’s business era, various organizations associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh like Vidya Bharati, Seva Bharti are working in education, health and development of rural areas. Union organizations like Vidya Bharati have carried out the task of promoting education based on Indian culture and values. Lakhs of students are being provided with quality education continuously through thousands of schools in the country. Through education, efforts are being made to establish values like morality, patriotism and social harmony in the younger generation. Today, 86 provincial and regional committees in the country are attached to Vidya Bharati. Under this, 45 lakh students are studying education and rituals under the guidance of 9,00,000 teachers in 30,000 educational institutions. Of these, 49 are teachers and colleges, 2353 secondary and 923 higher secondary schools, 633 pre -primary and 5312 primary, 4164 upper primary and 6127 solo teacher schools and 3679 Sanskar Kendras. Today, there are cities and villages of different parts of the country, in the slums in forest dwellers and mountainous areas, Shishu Vatika, Shishu Mandir, Vidya Mandir, Saraswati Vidyalaya, Higher Education Institute, Teachers Training Center and Research Institutes. The number of these Saraswati temples in the country is still increasing continuously and today Vidya Bharati has become the largest non -government education organization in India.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh discharged a huge role of India in the war of China in 1962. The then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, which was influenced by which the Sangh was invited to join the 1963 Republic Day parade. The Sangh has worked to stop the storm of rapid ongoing conversion in the country, continuously work for social harmony and improvement. The way the trap of rapid conversion was laid in the tribal areas of the country, the volunteers of the Sangh have worked to stop it to a great extent by putting their lives. The Sangh has launched a lot of campaigns to reduce the caste discrimination prevailing in the society and to promote social harmony. It emphasizes united all sections of society. Union organizations like Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram are working for the upliftment of tribal and deprived communities.
The Sangh has done the task of creating awareness among the common people, strengthening the price of national security. The Sangh has done the work of raising awareness by training citizens to strengthen the internal and external security of the country. The Sangh has acted to motivate the youth to go to the army and other national services, the Sangh has also contributed to the development work in the border areas of the country and also contributed to the development works.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has played a decisive role in the merger of Dadra, Nagar Haveli and Goa. The volunteers of the Sangh hoisted the tricolor of India on the morning of 2 August 1954 and hoisted the tricolor of India, freeing the entire Dadra Nagar Haveli from the possession of the Portuguese and handed over to the Government of India. The Swayamsevaks of the Sangh were effectively involved in the Goa Mukti Sangram, which has run since 1955. Sangh activists led by Jagannath Rao Joshi, under the leadership of Jagannath Rao Joshi, started the movement by reaching Goa, although the Sangh activists including Jagannath Rao Joshi were sentenced to ten years, which led to the deteriorating of Goa, and in 1961, the Indian government soldiers had to intervene in 1961.
The Sangh had worked to play a very important role in the JP movement against corruption and in the movement against the emergency in the country and did the work of excluding Indira Gandhi from power. Due to this, Indira Gandhi worked to impose a ban on the Sangh. It was the volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh who had accelerated the Ram Mandir movement by sacrificing the original identity of India in the movement for Ramlal’s birthplace. The Sangh has continued work during the era of epidemic in the country from time to time, the union volunteers have worked to distribute medicines, ration and relief materials across the country, regardless of their lives, without care of their lives, they have provided people awareness campaigns and assist them in health services. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is still continuously working to find solutions to the burning problems of the country and get a permanent solution to those problems. The Sangh has become an inclusive and nationalist organization of India that is working to strengthen India’s cultural identity in the world, strengthen India’s social, cultural and national structure, and is making a positive contribution to nation building.
– Deepak Kumar Tyagi / Intervention
Advocate, columnist and political analyst