The three-day lecture series of the RSS — expected to be attended by dignitaries representing political, economic, social, academic, religious, diplomatic sphere and experts from other key areas — will commence at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi on Monday.
The conclave seen as an RSS outreach programme will be addressed by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. The lecture series titled “Future of Bharat: An RSS perspective” will start in the evening. The third-day would be an interactive question-answer session.
The event representing “all shades of opinions” would discuss the kind of India the RSS envisages in the 21st century.
The RSS has understandably sent invites to almost all the senior political leaders. Diplomats of around 60 counties are understood to be in the list of invitees.
The meeting is taking place amid the controversial comments made by Congress president Rahul Gandhi during his recent foreign tours over the role of Nagpur outfit and its hold over the ruling BJP.
RSS chief Bhagwat is expected to answer questions from the invitees and clear “misgivings” over the aims and objectives of the 93-year-old organisation.
“The preparations for the event has been on for last six-months and it has no relation to the recent debates raked up around the organisation,” sources said denying that Rahul’s comparison of RSS with Islamic extremist outfit ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ is prompting the Nagpur organisation to clear the air.
Last month at the “International Institute of Strategic Studies” in London, Rahul said, “The RSS is trying to change the nature of India… RSS’s idea is similar to the idea of Muslim Bortherhood in the Arab world.”
Sources in the RSS maintain Rahul is “only trying to hit the RSS to eventually take on its political rival the BJP.”
The official view of the RSS is that Rahul who has not understood India yet cannot understand the RSS.