A team of diplomats from European Union handling political affairs and that included diplomats from counties like Greece, Belgium, Italy, Denmark and Sweden.called on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat .The diplomatic team' meet is dubbed to be a socio-cultural trip,but it is one of the rare visit by a group of senior diplomats to this outfit, giving huge importance to the organisation and its influence among people and the new regime.
Some diplomats had individually attended RSS' events like Vijayadashmi rally earlier, but a visit by a highly important EU team, that too by prior seeking of time from RSS' chief, has left political observers thinking. Though the visit was kept a closed-door affair, with the media out of loop.
The team, which had representatives of 10 countries, was led by Anne Marchal, head of political affairs of EU, and they were taken around the city by RSS' Nagpur in-charge Rajesh Loya.and was also taken to Mahatma Gandhi's Sewagram Ashram and Deekshabhoomi memorial of Dalit icon Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar.
There was a proposal from the EU side which wanted to understand RSS as an organisation following which the trip was organised, said a source. It reflects international interest in RSS which is also believed to have a say in the government.
There was no discussion on political or economic affairs. RSS was projected as a social organisation, saying that apart from other activities, it also runs trade unions, farmers body, blood and eye banks under is banner, said source. The emphasis was to highlight the multifaceted role of RSS as an organisation.
The visit coincided with the RSS officers' training camp under way at Reshimbagh ground where the organisation's philosophy is inculcated in senior level workers. Around 750 RSS volunteers are being trained in the camp which includes brainstorming sessions and physical regime to prepare them to work as full-time RSS workers.
India Honest justifies the attempt by the EU nations to understand an organisation as big as RSS and one organisation that has worked among people,in long periods of deep interaction and strong built up of trust among the society for so many decades. Some how the international leaders have realised their past mistake and now understood the importance of knowing the views of RSS, that will dominate a role play in India for next several decades, while within the nation the dynasty rules and the so called secular have seriously failed to gauge the influence of the organisation's ideology on majority of people's mindset