The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will
organise a mega gathering of its cadres and common people on January 7, 2018
across the Konkan region including Mumbai.
The initiative has been christened as
Hindu Chetna Sangam inspired from a mammoth RSS gathering Shiv Shakti Sangam
held on January 3, 2016 in Pune.
The RSS has decided to organise separate
gatherings at the taluka level in 267 places in the Konkan region unlike Shiv
Shakti Sangam where around 85,000 workers and 50,000 people had gathered at one
place.
On an average, 1,000 people are expected
to attend the gathering at each taluka. Thus, approximately 2.50 lakh people
will attend the gathering across the region, which has a status of prant
(state) in the Sangh organisation.
WHAT ARE RSS' PLANS
"The idea is to demonstrate the
sajjan shakti (strength of good people)," said Uday Kulkarni, the prant
seva pramukh at a meeting in Thane on Sunday. The organisation is also going to
launch a mobile application where those who want to attend the gathering can
register. The app is likely to be activated in October.
A senior worker said that RSS is looking
to reach out to each and every locality of minimum 10,000 households in the
region through the gathering. "We have plans to get everyone involved in
the initiative. We will approach various social organisations, dignified people
and representatives of each sector of the society to make the gathering a grand
success," he said.
The RSS hopes that the gathering will give
a boost to the organisation. The number of people attending the RSS shakhas
(units) and its initiatives in social field has gone up multi-fold after the
Shiv Shakti Sangam.As a part of the preparations the RSS is going to observe
swadeshi sanmaan fortnight between August 1 and 15 with a focus on opposing
goods manufactured in China.