RSS wants to reach Gen Z. It’s been doing this for decades
The RSS’s Sarsanghachalak, or its chief Mohan Bhagwat, just met more than 2,000 Gen Z and Gen Alpha students from across India.The timing was deliberate- coming right on the heels of the protests over the NEET paper leak that forced Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Bhagwat played the sympathetic elder-backing the youth, calling the protest a legitimate part of democracy, and asserting that questioning power isn’t anti-national. All this while not overtly criticising the government. Many saw it as the RSS reaching out to a new generation.But there's nothing new about…
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