Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat stated on Wednesday that “efforts aimed at the prosperity of the country would not be effective until women’s equal participation in the workforce is secured.”
Bhagwat stated, “If the entire society is to be organized, then 50% of it is the maternal power,” during the annual RSS assembly in Nagpur on Vijayadashami. It is indisputable. They require strengthening. Their name is Mother.
They come to mind as Jagat Janani (creators of the universe). I don’t know what made us decide to restrict their range of activity when imagining these things. These limitations later gained credibility when foreign invaders arrived. We kept the limits in place even when the invaders left. Never did we free them.
“We either lock them in the prayer room or confine them to the house as second-class citizens. By granting people equal rights in the private and public spheres and decision-making autonomy, we can put an end to this, he stated.
Santosh Yadav, a mountaineer, and former ITBP officer was the major guest at the RSS gathering; while Bhagwat did name a few cases, there aren’t many Vijayadashami events when a woman has been the chief guest. He made an effort to dispel the notion that men predominate in the RSS.
Since Doctor Sahab’s time, it has been standard practice in the Sangh to have accomplished women present at RSS gatherings, as well as women who are intelligentsia members and sources of inspiration (RSS founder Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar).
Mohan Bhagwat claimed RSS has distinct wings for both sexes to collaborate in every area:
At that moment, Anasuyabai Kale was at our event. Our Shivir has included Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the former head of the All India Women’s Conference. The major guest was a lady in December 1934 as well, he claimed.
He claimed that while it was organizationally necessary for the RSS to have distinct wings for men and women, both sexes collaborated in every area.
Therefore, various organizational units for men and women carry out the nation-building work, although men and women collaborate in all social activities (carried out by the Sangh). This has been happening, the man said.
The RSS chairman demanded a comprehensive population control strategy that “must apply to all without any exception” in response to his concern about the “population imbalance” in the nation that has caused a “division of countries.”
He claimed that conversion was the primary cause of the imbalance in the population. “Population balance is necessary. About 50 years ago, there was an imbalance, and we experienced severe effects. New nations including East Timor, South Sudan, and Kosovo were established in the modern era. Therefore, new countries are formed when there is a population imbalance. The world is split.
“This imbalance has several causes, not only the birth rate. The largest influences, however, are coercion and seduction. Another factor is border-crossing infiltration. Monitoring this mismatch is essential for the good of the country, he said.
According to the RSS chairman, India’s sizable young population can be used as a demographic dividend, but the nation must make plans for how it will allocate resources when this population ages in another 50 years.
However, he advised against severe population control, as seen in China. “A few years ago, we devised a (population control) policy.” It was 2.1. We surpassed expectations and are now down to two. However, going much lower could be harmful.
Children develop social behavior in the family, which requires the presence of numbers in the family. You need people your age, as well as those older and younger than you. “When the population stops growing, communities and languages vanish,” he remarked.
Bhagwat appealed to Muslims, claiming that “misinformation” had been propagated about the Sangh’s agitations, which were only intended to defend the country from terrorist groups.
“We do not seek to dominate others.” We simply do not want to be vanquished, so we seek power… However, there is fear-mongering that ‘array, Sangh wale marenge’ (RSS workers will beat you) and that ‘the Hindu Sangathan will force everyone out.’
This misunderstanding has been propagated. Because of this anxiety, several members of the minority community have met with us in recent years. “We’re also meeting members of the community,” he explained.
Speaking about the killings of two people in Udaipur and Amravati by Islamic radicals denouncing insults about the Prophet made by the now-suspended BJP spokeswoman Nupur Sharma, Bhagwat stressed that such acts must be condemned by all communities, not just Hindus.
“It doesn’t happen all the time, but this time some notable people, even from the Muslim community, spoke out against it, calling it anti-Islamic.” This should not be the case. “Every society must speak out,” he stated.
He also warned against making aggressive speeches. “While remaining within the bounds of the law and the Constitution, one must express oneself in a way that does not harm others or divide society.” “No one’s shraddha (faith) should be jeopardized,” he stated.
