Inauguration of new RSS headquarters | Mohan Bhagwat to workers: Opposition to Sangh is gone, but remain alert, stay on the path

The Sangh celebrated the day as Praveshotsav and the event saw participation from Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister J P Nadda, apart from RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, Joint General Secretaries Krishna Gopal, Arun Kumar and Alok Kumar, among other senior RSS functionaries.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. (Express Photo)

Built at a cost of Rs 150 crore and spread over four acres, the RSS headquarters has three 12-storied towers with 5-lakh sq ft of space for official and residential purposes of the Sangh. The building has a mess, multiple auditoriums, a library and even a hospital.

“The Sangh work in the country is gaining momentum and is expanding. Today, we have to make the Sangh work as grand as the grandeur of this renovated building… Our work should reflect that,” Bhagwat said.

“We have full faith that this work will reach the entire world and will make India Vishwa Guru (the world leader). And we have faith that we will see this happening… But the volunteers of the Sangh will have to make efforts for this. We will have to continuously expand the work for this,” he added.

The building has a mess, multiple auditoriums, a library and even a hospital.

According to RSS, the event also saw Alok Kumar, who is also the President of Shri Keshav Memorial Committee, give detailed information about the various stages of reconstruction of Keshav Kunj.

For the past eight years, the RSS had been functioning out of the Udaseen Ashram in Jhandewalan which it had rented to allow for the construction of the headquarters. Sources said Sangh functionaries began shifting to the new building gradually from September 2024 and have now completely vacated the Udaseen Ashram even though in some parts of the new headquarters interior work is still on.