RSS wants to revive closed shakhas before Yoga Day

According to RSS office bearers, Yoga camps would be held in all these revived shakhas from June 14 to June 20, to be observed as Yoga Week.

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To ensure the public’s participation in International Yoga Day programmes, RSS will engage its volunteers to create awareness in masses about Yoga through shakhas, door-to-door campaigns and distributing pamphlets.

“Before Yoga Week, we have to identify the places where shakhas used to be organised by RSS volunteers before being closed down these shakhas were discontinued due to some or the other reason in the past 10 years,” said Narendra, RSS Sah Prant Karyawah of Awadh Prant.

He said search for such places has been directed to be conducted all across the country, with a hope to restore them.

“If shakhas were being organised at any place and time, that means the local people who participated in these shakhas had nationalist thoughts like of RSS and our ideologies matched. If shakhas would be organised there again, these people will participate and shakhas will be revived there,” Narendra said.

According to a report tabled in RSS’s recent All India Pratinidhi Sabha held in Nagpur, the organisation will hold 51,330 shakhas, 12,847 Saptahik Milan and 9,008 Sangh Mandali programmes across the country. RSS has set a target to double these figures in the coming years. At presently, it runs 6,077 shakhas of young students.

In Awadh region, presently 906 shakhas and 226 Saptahik Milan programmes at 690 places are being organised.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, in several meetings including the recent All India Pratinidhi Sabha, had asked swayamsevaks to increase the number of shakhas and appealed to the people to take part in them.