In first visit to RSS headquarters for an Indian PM, Modi calls Sangh ‘banyan tree’ of Indian culture
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, marking a significant moment in Indian political history. His presence at the memorial of RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar coincided with the foundation stone laying of a new eye institute in Nagpur.
Modi shared the stage with Bhagwat at the Eye Institute event. This was for the third time that the PM and the RSS chief shared the stage since 2014 and the first time since the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Narendra Modi on Sunday became the first Prime Minister of India to visit the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Modi visited the memorial of RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar at the Sangh’s headquarters in Reshim Bagh. He was accompanied by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at RSS headquarters.
Later, Modi laid the foundation stone laying of an extension building of Madhav Netralaya Premium Centre in thee city. RSS is the ideological mentor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). No Prime Minister of Indiahas ever visited the RSS headquarters in Nagpur.
Speaking at the eye hospital function, Modi described the RSS as the "vatvruksh", or banyan tree, of India’s immortal culture and modernisation whose ideals and principles were to protect the national consciousness.
Modi shared the stage with Bhagwat at the Eye Institute event. This was for the third time that the PM and the RSS chief shared the stage since 2014 and the first time since the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
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