India: RSS launches Rashtriya Vichar Abhiyan a new ideological campaign

RSS launches 2-year awareness campaign on social reformers

Written by Lalmani Verma | Lucknow | Published on:April 25, 2015 1:18 am

With an objective to create awareness among youths about leaders such as Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Dayananda Saraswati and K B Hedgewar, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Awadh region has launched a two-year programme called Rashtriya Vichar Abhiyan to be organised in colleges and universities of Lucknow and adjoining districts.

Under the campaign, which will run till 2017 Assembly elections, the right-wing organisation will organise debates and essay writing competitions on the contribution of the four leaders in social reform. The campaign has already kicked-off with a debate competition on Ambedkar on April 20 and the winners were felicitated by Governor Ram Naik in Lucknow on Thursday.
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