RSS gets a new captain
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The ascendance of Mohanji Bhagwat to the highest position of sar-sanghchalak (captain or chief executive) of the RSS, is an event, noteworthy for multiple reasons. After Guruji Golwalkar, Bhagwat is the youngest to occupy this position. With his appointment, after a gap of about 14 years, once again, a Maharashtrian is now heading the organisation. Besides, unlike Prof. Rajendra Singh and K S Sudarshan - two of Bhagwat's immediate predecessors - Bhagwat has no aura of an intellectual. He is more down-to-earth, a decisive doer and a man of organisation.
But more than anything else, his appointment becomes important for the scores of challenges that the RSS will be facing in the days to come. As the head of the family, Mohan
More about Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe is the Director-General of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, South Asia’s only research and training academy for elected representatives. He was a Member of Senate of the University of Mumbai for over 18 years. Since December 2004, he has been a Member of the Board of Governors of Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration in Ahmedabad. In February this year, he was awarded a Ph.D by the University of Mumbai for his doctoral thesis on Political Parties as Victims of Populism and Electoral Compulsions; A Quest for Systemic Solutions - With special reference to India. In 1998, he received the award for best literary work from the Maharashtra government for his work Nivadak Manoos. In 1998-99 he was awarded the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship of Rotary International.
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