RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat who is on a three-day visit to Dhanbad to discuss the ongoing activities of the organisation and discuss the future plan, laid emphasis on expanding its activities to all the 1067 rural units titled mandal and 847 urban units titled Bastis.

Giving details of the deliberations held first two days of the meeting Rakesh Lal, Sah Prant Karyawahak of RSS said, “We will be celebrating the 100 years of establishment of RSS in 2025 and therefore discussed the details of expanding our activities in all the rural and as well as urban pockets of Jharkhand before that to make our services available to the common people.”

“We have apprised him about the service to society carried out by our organisation during first two phases of the Covid right from providing medicines and foods to affected people and family to shouldering the dead bodies of victims of the pandemic to the crematorium and have also completed all preparations right for the identification of place and appointment of manpower for establishment of block level isolation centres during the third wave,” said Lal.

Rakesh Lal who addressed the media to inform about the deliberations however avoided a direct comment for the recent controversy over the allotment of room for offering Namaz in the Jharkhand Assembly and said, “The issue relates to the prerogative of the government here.”

“We have heard that the government is planning to reconsider the decision and a committee has also been constituted in this regard and we will comment as per the development after the government reconsideration of the issue” said Lal.

When asked by the media about the caste based reservation issue he said, “RSS believes that distinction can’t be carried out between two persons on the basis of their caste as we rather believe in propagating and establishing social harmony and carrying out regular campaigns to narrow down the differences on the basis of caste and origin.”

Asked by media about Congress leaders, Digvijay Singh’s recent statement equating RSS with Taliban, Lal said that, “A sea can only be compared with a sea, a mountain can be compared only with mountain so there is no meaning of the statement as Sangh can be compared only with Sangh (read) RSS.”