Why has Gujarat become a laboratory of the Sangh Parivar? The answer lies in the book written by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in which he has depicted the lives of leaders who built the Parivar in the state.
Modi, in his book Jyotipunj, written in Gujarati and released on Monday, has written on ‘unsung heroes’ of the Sangh Parivar who worked in oblivion throughout their lives for building of the organisation in Gujarat.
In his book, Modi says that he has obtained ‘sanskars’ from these RSS leaders. In the 200-page book he has written about lives of 16 leaders of the Sangh Parivar.
He has described in details their character, their strength, their skill in organistion building and above all their simplicity.
“The work of the Sangh Parivar is an open university in organisation building,” Modi writes in the chapter on one such leader Keshavrao Deshmukh. He describes RSS as the, ‘silent revolution of making men’.
Modi says, “RSS model of making leaders needs to be studied in comparison to western models which is being taught in IIMs, Harvard and Stanford”.
“The RSS has a unique culture in which they do not teach to impress, but they give importance to renunciation, dedication and hard work,” he added.
Out of the 16 leaders’ life depicted in the book, base of work of 14 of them was Gujarat, while two RSS founder Dr Keshvram Hedgewar and second head Madhavrao Golwalkar were national leaders.