Questioning BJP's stand on reservation, he said whatever the ruling party may say it cannot go against the views of the RSS.
A complete lockdown will be imposed in Nagpur City police commissionerate area from March 15 to March 21 over the spread of Covid-19, the administration has announced.
Distancing himself from decision-making process in the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Saturday that he had counselled the party leadership to look for a young candidate who can restore its organisational set-up.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said India should find out the intentions of Pakistan and China before extending a hand of friendship as showing naivety or taking a weak stand would harm the country's interests.
Against the backdrop of Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L K Advani indicating that he would not be the prime ministerial candidate in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Wednesday said it does not issue any "diktat" to the party leaders on such issues and it was up to the party to take a call.
Virtually giving credence to reports that top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh may have to give up their posts, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said they will decide on their role within the party.
A day before the Special Bench of the Allahabad High Court meets to make a last ditch effort to find an amicable solution to the Ayodhya case, leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad held a marathon meeting in New Delhi on Thursday to discuss the issue.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat escaped unhurt after his car was hit by his security escort vehicle in Delhi on Wednesday while he was on his way to the airport.
The Bhartiya Janata Party on Wednesday cleared the air about confusion regarding the apparent two versions of the result of the meeting between senior leader L K Advani and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind chief Maulana Arshad Madani on Sunday stoked a controversy when he claimed that "Om" and "Allah" were the same God worshipped by 'Manu'.
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Shivram Apte, son of Shyam Hari Apte, has strongly refuted claims that his father had given self-styled religious guru Dayanand Pandey Rs 10 lakh to kill Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh General Secretary Mohan Bhagwat and RSS communications director Indraeesh, as reported by a national daily on Friday."This is our wrong 15 minutes of fame," said an agitated Apte, who owns a software consultancy firm in Pune.
He criticised Uddhav Thackeray for not giving time to meet his supporters and leaders.
Maharashtra BJP chief Nitin Gadkari's visit to New Delhi at a time when RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat was in town has raised speculation of his prospects of becoming the next party president. However, Gadkari himself was non-committal about his prospects and said he would interact with the press later.
Rashriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat had the final word on the crisis that gripped the Bharatiya Janata Party since Lok Sabha polls, declaring not to allow any Delhi-based leader become the party president and asserting that Lal Krishna Advani would quit as Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha 'according to the schedule agreed by him.'
'We are seeing an era where only what Modi wishes is going to happen.' 'A clear message has now been sent to others that if this fate could befall on Nitin Gadkari, then just think what could happen to lesser mortals.'
Addressing the annual Dussera rally at the Reshim Bagh ground in Nagpur, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said, "Terrorism and Hindus are an oxymoron and can never be related to each other. This was an attempt to weaken the strength of the Hindus in India and at the same time to appease the Muslims."
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh top brass led by its general secretary Mohan Bhagwat on Monday met Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani
Sheela Bhatt meets RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a media interaction in New Delhi. She says that while he was rigid on his stand on the Ayodhya issue, he impressed with his simplicity and clarity of thought.
BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain was replying to questions by mediapersons on what the party had to say on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's comment that the Ram Mandir movement had helped BJP but the Sangh was not looking for help from anyone to run its movement.
After meeting Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat along with senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Sushma Swaraj and Anant Kumar and later rushing to L K Advani's residence to meet the party president on Friday, party leaders Arun Jaitely left for Mumbai while M Venkaiah Naidu left for Hyderabad.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj declined to comment on the reported suggestion by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to groom young leaders for the saffron party. "The BJP has to decide about it. This is not a question of what we think they have to manage. This is a universal truth that young generation must replace, but when and where they have to decide," RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said in an interview.
Ahead of Bharatiya Janata Party's "Chintan baithak" in Shimla from Wednesday, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha on Tuesday gave clear signals to the party that it should think in terms of younger leadership and ending factionalism.
"Bhagwat has done national service by speaking the truth on what missionaries do," the Sena said.
Voting was underway on Friday in 102 Lok Sabha seats spread across 21 states and Union territories in the first of the seven phases of the world's largest electoral exercise, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging voters to exercise their franchise in record numbers.
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil on Thursday said the police was in possession of an audio tape of a conversation of a Malegaon bomb blast accused making derogatory references to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Pravin Togadia, general secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, rejected the Anti Terrorism Squad's contention that those who had been arrested in the Malegoan bomb blast case and particularly Dayanand Pande had given a supari for killing senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Mohan Bhagwat and a colleague for straying away from the Hindu line.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh plans to take the help of the internet to connect with hundreds of thousands of tech-savvy people, particularly youths, who have no time to attend its shakhas (branches).
Amid the continuing Patel quota stir in Gujarat, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat pitched for a review of the reservation policy, contending it has been used for political ends and suggesting setting up of an apolitical committee to examine who needs the facility and for how long.
Mohan Bhagwat defied a district administration order that only elected representatives, school authorities or government officials could hoist the tricolour at the government-aided institution.
Through its economic resolution, the RSS meet also opposed the government's Special Economic Zone policy and also sought its review. The meet also strongly opposed the entry of foreign players in Indian retail trade.
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In the midst of leadership tussle in BJP, senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi today held met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and other Sangh leaders in New Delhi, his third interaction with them in a fortnight.
The meeting assumes significance in the wake of RSS criticism of Advani over his controversial remarks about Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah during his recent Pakistan visit.
'No one is propagating RSS ideology as a government officer.'
The Vatican declined to comment on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's controversial remarks.
He, however, said that there have been some 'false cases' of lynching at times that have been filed against some people. Addressing a book-release function in Ghaziabad, Bhagwat said the DNA of all Indians are the same.
It seems the joke is on the RSS now, which instead of asking the BJP to go back to Hindutva finds itself in a position where it will have to reinvent itself.
The RSS has been at loggerheads with Advani ever since the latter praised Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah during a recent visit to that country.\n
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