{"id":53446,"date":"2017-03-22T06:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T00:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=53446"},"modified":"2017-03-22T06:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T00:33:17","slug":"national-council-meet-rss-focus-physical-strength-cadres-resist-attacks-south-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=53446","title":{"rendered":"National Council Meet: RSS to focus on \u2018physical strength\u2019 of cadres to resist \u2018attacks\u2019 in South | The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Add your site or application content here --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"&quot;container&quot;\">\n<div>CALLING FOR a nationwide campaign on alleged violence against its volunteers and workers in Kerala \u2014 as also in West Bengal \u2014 the RSS has decided to enhance the \u201cphysical\u201d strength of Sangh cadres in the southern state to resist \u201cstate-sponsored\u201d attacks on RSS and BJP sympathisers. The decision is not meant to form a militant group but to make Sangh cadres capable of \u201cresisting\u201d, RSS spokesperson N Sadagopan said at the end of the three-day national council meet of RSS in Coimbatore on Tuesday. The Sangh also firmed up plans to get more support from urban areas, including youths and professionals by tweaking RSS shakha operations and changing \u201cour physical exercise sessions\u2026to accommodate them\u201d, Sadagopan said.<\/div>\n<div><!-- Add your site or application content here --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"&quot;container&quot;\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To recruit more women in urban centres, the Sangh will implement these new decisions also in nearly 10,000 shakhas for volunteers of Rashtra Sevika Samiti, the RSS\u2019s women\u2019s wing. \u201cWomen will also be trained in urban shakhas,\u201d a leader said. The meeting also called for a nationwide fund-raising drive to help \u201cvictim families\u201d of hundreds of RSS and BJP cadres who suffered death, injuries and damage to their properties, allegedly in CPI(M)-led attacks. With an aim to spread RSS\u2019s views among marginalised sections, the Sangh decided to take up the cause of \u201csocial equality\u201d as one of its key agendas to accommodate Dalits and tribals. One of the 15 sessions over the three-day meet decided to start a nationwide estimation of untouchability practices still prevalent against Dalits \u2014 such as the double tumbler practice, denial of entry into temples, bar on access in public crematoriums and similar casteist practices.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Leaders at the national council observed that the major challenge for RSS in Tamil Nadu is its lack of popularity at the grassroots level in non-urban areas. \u201cThe RSS has better Influence in urban areas and places with Muslim-Hindu conflicts,\u201d a leader said. \u201cBut strengthening a ground network in villages \u2014 like the Dravidian parties \u2014 will help us gain strength. We have decided to form at least 5,000 more shakhas in Tamil Nadu in the next one year,\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the wake of increasing murders and attacks on Hindu leaders in Tamil Nadu, RSS meet has also decided to form a special legal cell to handle murders cases of Hindu leaders. The RSS also plans to begin a nationwide training programme early next month to enroll more youths. \u201cEach training camp will last for 20 days, and the camps will be completed before June 15,\u201d an RSS leader said. Kerala is among states with a rigorous selection process for delegates for the programme, as it has one of the largest number of daily RSS shakhas. \u201cWhen UP has only around 7,000 shakhas, Kerala has 4,630 daily shakhas \u2014 more than double the 2,124 shakhas in the much larger Tamil Nadu,\u201d an RSS leader from Kerala said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALLING FOR a nationwide campaign on alleged violence against its volunteers and workers in Kerala \u2014 as also in West Bengal \u2014 the RSS has decided to enhance the \u201cphysical\u201d strength of Sangh cadres in the southern state to resist \u201cstate-sponsored\u201d attacks on RSS and BJP sympathisers. 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