RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to visit West Bengal in January, to address public programme

Kolkata: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat will address the swayamsevaks in Kolkata in a public programme at Shahid Minar and commemorate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth anniversary on January 23. Bhagwat will visit Kolkata and will be on a five-day visit to the state on January 19 and stay till January 24.

“Bhagwatji will pay respect and offer salute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary, under the name of ‘Netaji Laho Pranam’. He will also address a public programme of full-uniformed 2500 swayamsevaks from the Kolkata and Howarh Municipality areas,” Biplab Roy, Prant Prachar Pramukh of Dakshinbanga, Kolkata told ET. Other swayamsevaks, well-wishers and Sangh members will also be present as the audience in the programme.

Bhagwat will be on a five-day programme to Bengal, where the RSS chief will participate in several internal organizational meetings. The programmes will include various organizational meetings-from ground level to state-level, including Sakha, mandal in rural areas (wards in urban), block, district and state levels swayamsevaks. These meetings have been scheduled on various days and shifts, starting from January 20 at RSS headquaerters ‘Keshav Bhawan’ in Kolkata.


Ahead of Panchayat polls, Bhagwat’s visit is crucial at a time when there are preparations for the Panchayat polls in the saffron brigade. Party sources said that Bhagwat’s presence in West Bengal is likely to boost the party’s morale in the state before the polls.