39 RSS members detained for conducting Guru Puja and special Shakha training session at govt school in Chennai
Chennai police officials said that the training and Guru Puja was conducted at the government school without prior permission
Chennai: 39 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members were detained by the police on Thursday, in Tamil Nadu's capital city Chennai after they conducted a Guru Puja and special Shakha training session at a government school in Porur.
The detained RSS members had conducted the puja and training at Ayyappanthangal Government Higher Secondary School without prior permission, said police officials, as per news agency ANI.
Earlier, in the day, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat criticised the Donald Trump administration's tariff policy during his speech in Nagpur. The RSS chief also gave a clarion call for relying more on Swadeshi in his annual address.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat pitches for Swadeshi
On Thursday, Vijayadashami, Bhagwat pitched for relying more on Swadeshi goods.
He delivered the Vijayadashami address at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, Maharashtra, on Thursday, October 2. The address assumed significance this year as the organisation—the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideological fountainhead- completes 100 years of inception.
RSS centenary year
In his speech, Bhagwat also asserted the need to adopt an indigenous and self-reliant approach while maintaining diplomatic and economic relations with the world, cautioning that dependence should never become a compulsion.
Earlier, the RSS chief performed ‘Shastra Puja’ at the RSS office. Besides traditional arms, replicas of modern weapons, including Pinaka MK-1, Pinaka Enhance and Pinaka, drones were also on display during the Shastra Puja at the Reshimbagh ground of the RSS headquarters.
Former President Ram Nath Kovind, the chief guest of the programme, Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were also present.
Founded in 1925 in Maharashtra's Nagpur, by Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the RSS was established as a volunteer-based organisation with the goal of fostering cultural awareness, discipline, service, and social responsibility among citizens, according to a government statement issued on the occasion of RSS centenary event held in Delhi on October 1.