Eye on future, RSS gets tech savy to attract youngsters

This will help realise RSS’s “dream of a better country,” RSS Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said. Similar programs have been started for college students as well.

Hosabale said such measures were being taken as the outfit was embracing modernity and concentrating on “quality improvement” to ensure that the current generation adopts its principles.

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Similarly, it is eyeing IT professionals and engineers, and conducting weekly programs meant specifically to help inculcate ‘social consciousness’ in them.

Hosabale, who was in Kanpur for a key meeting of RSS’s regional pracharaks, said this was being done as they play a big role in the development of the country.

Hosabale said the outfit has asked its swayamsewaks across the country to link up with those who apply for online membership in their respectrive districts, and bring them into the RSS fold.

RSS claims that nearly 47,200 people, a majority of whom are youngsters, have applied for its membership online this year. Last year, the figure was 31,800.