Team News Riveting
Raipur, November 2
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chhattisgarh Prant Sanghchalak, Dr Purnendu Saxena today said that the number of Shakhas across the country had reached near pre-COVID figure and would level within a short span of time.
Shakhas are the smallest unit of the RSS at the grassroot level, where volunteers gather every day, pray together and participate in exercises including self-defence training. Following the spread of COVID induced pandemic, the Shakhas were suspended as it attracted a good gathering of swayamsevaks.
“The Shakhas are slowly resuming and the number has reached near the figure that existed before the suspension,” Dr Saxena said. All protocols that include social distancing are maintained by the swayamsevaks in the Shakhas, he added.
A leading orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Saxena informed that Sangh is running 54382 Shakhas at 55,000 places across the country. He added that the RSS has drawn a roadmap to expand its footprint in next three years and reach upto the Mandal level. At present, Sangh activities are running in 5683 blocks of the 6483 in the country covering 900 districts out of 910. “We have set a target to reach every Mandal by 2024,” Dr Saxena said.
He briefed about the resolution passed in the recently concluded Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal meet held in Dharwad in Karnataka. The RSS, in its resolution, strongly castigated the attack on Hindus in the neighbouring Bangladesh and urged the Government to take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of people belonging to the Hindu and Buddhist communities.
Expressing concern over the religious conversion, the Prant Sanghchalak of RSS Chhattisgarh said Sangh felt it was inevitable to have a law in the state to stop the activities.
