New Delhi: The day is also very special, Vijayadashami… On this day, Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, along with five volunteers, laid the foundation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). At that time, many people mocked Hedgewar and said that Hedgewar had come to make a revolution with children. No one had any idea that this small Sangh, which started with five people, would one day become the world’s largest volunteer and Hindu organisation.
The RSS has completed 100 years. Today, there are more than 75,000 branches of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh across the country. The RSS claims that it has more than 1 crore trained members. At the same time, there are more than 80 like-minded or subsidiary organisations in the Sangh family. The strength of the Sangh can be gauged from the fact th