'Inspired to live for the country', what did PM Modi say?
Prime minister Narendra Modi said on friday that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seed that was sown 100 years ago is today taking the form of a banyan tree and taking India's great culture to the new generation. PM Modi said that it is his good fortune that this organization has inspired lakhs of people like him to live for the country. PM Modi said, "It is maharashtra and mumbai that have given height to Marathi films as well as Hindi cinema and these days Chhava is making a splash."
'Because of RSS, I was able to connect with Marathi tradition'
In his address after inaugurating the 98th All india Marathi Sahitya Sammelan organized at Vigyan Bhavan in the national capital, the prime minister said that Marathi language is sweeter than nectar and he has been constantly trying to speak this language and learn new words of it. He said that because of RSS, he has also got the good fortune of connecting with Marathi language and Marathi tradition.
The prime minister said that this conference is being held at a time when 350 years of the coronation of Chhatrapati shivaji Maharaj have been completed, when it is the 300th year of Ahilyabai Holkar's birth anniversary and recently the Constitution of the country, made with the efforts of baba Saheb Ambedkar, has also completed its 75 years. He said, "Today we will also be proud of the fact that a Marathi speaking great man had sown the seed of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 100 years ago on the land of Maharashtra. Today it is celebrating its centenary year as a banyan tree." 'RSS inspired to live for the country' PM Modi said, "Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been running a Sanskar Yagya for the last 100 years to take India's great tradition and culture from Vedas to Vivekananda to the new generation. I am fortunate that RSS has inspired lakhs of people like me to live for the country. It is because of the Sangh that I have had the good fortune of connecting with the Marathi language and Marathi tradition.''
Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar founded the RSS on the day of Vijayadashmi in 1925 along with a select group of youth. Hedgewar was born in a Brahmin family in Nagpur. Its headquarters are in nagpur itself. The RSS is considered the ideological mentor of the bharatiya janata party (BJP). Recently, the old RSS office in Jhandewalan in the capital was inaugurated after its reconstruction. The newly built complex, spread over an area of more than 4 acres, has three 13-storey towers and about 300 rooms and offices.
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