Shiv Sena (UBT) firebrand leader Sanjay Raut on Monday made a huge assertion that Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the RSS office at Maharashtra’s Nagpur on Sunday to “declare his retirement” and further stated that the next PM will be from the state.
Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, leader of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena said, “PM Modi went to the RSS Office to announce his retirement. As per my knowledge, he has never visited the RSS headquarters in 10-11 years. RSS wants change in leadership. PM Modi is now leaving.”
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“RSS will decide the successor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he will be from Maharashtra. That’s why Modi was called to Nagpur to discuss it in a close door meeting,” added Sanjay Raut.
A Congress leader also had something to say, stating that he is with Sanjay Raut. I believe whatever he has said is correct. They retire individuals who are over 75 years old. PM Modi is also getting older, so perhaps they are considering retirement at this point. He would have surely gone there to please them… RSS is a terror outfit and gave birth to outfits such as VHP and Bajrang Dal,” news agency PTI has quoted Congress leader Husain Dalwai after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut’s statement.
PM Modi’s Nagpur trip
PM Modi on Sunday went to the RSS headquarter, making him the second sitting PM to see the RSS headquarters in Nagpur. Atal Bihari Vajpayee had gone there in 2000 during his third term as PM, an RSS official told.
PM Modi also unveiled the foundation stone of Madhav Netralaya Premium Centre, a new extension building of Madhav Netralaya Eye Institute & Research Centre, in the name of late RSS chief Madhavrao Golwalkar.
While in his visit to Nagpur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday referred to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as the “vatvruksh”, or banyan tree, of India’s eternal culture and modernisation whose ideals and principles were to safeguard the national consciousness.
The RSS volunteers are working selflessly in different areas in different regions of the nation, news agency PTI has quoted PM Modi.
“The Sangh is the ‘banyan tree’ of India’s immortal culture and modernisation,” Modi said. ”This large vatvruksh is not an ordinary one,” he said, adding the RSS is synonymous to service.
Madhav Netralaya was founded in 2014 in memory of late RSS chief Madhavrao Sadashivrao Golwalkar.
