RSS's brainstorming session starts at Rajgir

RSS's brainstorming session starts at Rajgir
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RSS noose tightens around BJP
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Patna, Oct. 7: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) decision to choose Bihar as the venue for its first karyakari mandal (working committee) conclave, to start from October 9, has raised eyebrows in state’s political circles.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and the top brass of the right-wing Hindu outfit have already reached Rajgir, the venue for what the Sangh Parivar mandarins describe as a “historic conclave”. The three-day conclave will conclude on October 11 and will be attended by over 350 members, including general secretary Bahiyaji Joshi, said RSS spokesman Manmohan Vaidya. The meeting agenda, Vaidya said, would be internal security, terrorism, Naxalite threat and border disputes with China and Pakistan.

However, Sangh Parivar sources said that the RSS had “chosen” Bihar as it also had “Bihar-centric” agenda. It seems that the outfit’s top brass believe that the “RSS ideology had weakened in Bihar despite the BJP sharing power with Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) in the state”.

Sources add that the RSS was anxious, as the BJP had allegedly forgotten issues such as infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals into Kishenganj, Katihar, Purnea and Araria despite staying in power with the Nitish government. The infiltration issue, ISI and cow slaughter in seemanchal areas were topics close to BJP heart, before it joined the Nitish-led government.

RSS ideologues are apparently not happy with Bihar BJP “toeing the line of Nitish” and appeasing minorities and escalated ISI activities on the India-Nepal and India-Bangladesh borders.

The Rajgir conclave is also being described as a fundamental shift in RSS strategy. “RSS’s top decision-making body had granted autonomy to the BJP to carrying forward its agenda. The RSS no longer finds the BJP, dogged by indiscipline and infighting, capable to pursue the Sangh’s policies,” said a source.

“Bal Apte, Ramlal, V. Satish and Saudan Singh will represent BJP in the conclave,” said Vaidya. The RSS has not invited any senior BJP leader from Bihar to participate in the proceedings.

“The RSS will have separate meetings with the Bihar BJP,” said Vaidya, defending the action. He refused to comment on the issue further. RSS sources said the outfit will evolve a formula to tighten the noose around the Bihar BJP.

However, a section of BJP ministers and senior party leaders are expected to attend the inaugural session on October 9.

“But, they will not be a part of the deliberations which will be a close-door affair confined among the RSS top brass, besides Bal Apte, Ramlal and Satish,” said the source.

Though the Nitish government provided security to the RSS chief on his journey from Patna to Rajgir, the chief minister is believed to be less enthusiastic about RSS choosing Bihar for its conclave.

Nitish apparently apprehends that the conclave might prove to be a weapon in the hands of rivals Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan to pillory the NDA government for allowing the anti-minority outfit to spread its tentacles here, a state that has seldom been a comfortable with the right-wing philosophy.



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RSS national executive begins at Rajgir
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Rajgir
Press Trust Of India
Patna, October 09, 2009
First Published: 12:18 IST(9/10/2009)
Last Updated: 12:20 IST(9/10/2009)


BJP's debacle in the recent Lok Sabha elections and its internal problems are expected to figure at a three-day executive committee meet of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh beginning from Friday at Rajgir.

RSS media in-charge Manmohan Vaidya said Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha LK Advani and BJP president Rajnath Singh would not attend the meet, the first ever in Bihar.

The BJP would be represented by Bal Apte, Ramlal, V Satish and Saudan Singh, he said. Asked whether RSS would have a separate meeting with BJP leaders, he said no such meeting was scheduled.

The meeting would be attended by its chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Bahiyaji Joshi.

The executive committee would discuss terrorism, naxalism, border dispute with Pakistan and China and drought, he said.

The RSS leader said the proposals related to internal security and environment could be taken up during the meet. All organisations of RSS' Vichar Parivar (ideological family) like BJP and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthy Parishad (BJP's student wing) will discuss the year's progress and plans, a senior RSS functionary said.

The meeting would review the expansion of the 'Shakhas' of RSS, besides apolitical agenda on the ongoing 'Gau Gram Yatra' (campaign to save the cows).



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Rajgir (Bihar), Oct 9 (PTI) A three-day executive committee meet of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to deliberate on various issues in the aftermath of BJP's debacle in the May Lok Sabha elections began here today.

Terrorism, naxalism, border dispute with Pakistan and China and drought situation would be discussed among others in the meeting, the first-ever in Bihar, RSS media in-charge Manmohan Vaidya said.

The RSS leader said proposals relating to internal security and environment could be taken up during the meet, inaugurated by RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat.

All organisations of RSS' Vichar Parivar (ideological family) like BJP and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthy Parishad (BJP's student wing) will discuss the year's progress and plans, a senior RSS functionary said.

The meeting would review the expansion of 'Shakhas' of RSS, besides apolitical agenda on the ongoing 'Gau Gram Yatra' (campaign to save the cows), he said.
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RSS begins three-day meet in Bihar
October 9th, 2009 - 2:43 pm ICT by IANS -
Patna, Oct 9 (IANS) With terrorism, drought and the future course of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the agenda, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Friday began a three-day national executive meeting at Bihar’s heritage town of Rajgir.
Inaugurated by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and attended by 350 members from all over the country, the meeting is being held near Nalanda, about 100 km from here and known as an ancient seat of learning where Buddha spent many years.

The executive committee had an extensive agenda, said an RSS leader. It would discuss terrorism, Maoist violence, border disputes with Pakistan and China, drought and the ‘Gau Gram Yatra’, or the campaign to save cows.

The crisis in the BJP, with senior leaders openly voicing their dissent, would also be discussed, he said.

The meeting, being held in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s homeground, has seen a war of words between the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), an ally of the BJP, and the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal.

RJD senior leader Ramkirpal Yadav said the Nitish Kumar government was welcoming RSS leaders in Bihar to create communal trouble.

“When Lalu Prasad’s RJD was in power, RSS-VHP leaders like Pravin Togadia and Ashok Singhal were not allowed to step into Bihar… But the Nitish Kumar government is treating them like state guests,” he said.

JD-U leaders responded by saying that the RSS was not a banned organisation and therefore free to meet anywhere it liked.

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