Ahead of Delhi Assembly Election 2025, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mother of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has launched a very intensive grassroots campaign by holding around 50,000′ drawing room meetings’ in the city. Held at different localities, offices, institutions, shopping centres, schools and colleges, these have been part of a well-coordinated move to ensure that the party is given support ahead of the February 5 elections.
The RSS has eight zones, or vibhags, in Delhi encompassing 30 districts and 173 smaller units or nagars that operate the RSS’s programs here. These informal and impacting meetings were pushed for each zone to progressively connect with the local locality before the Election Commission of India (ECI) declares the poll dates.
A senior RSS functionary, while speaking to The Hindu, said that till now some 2,000 drawing room meetings were organised by RSS volunteers in one zone alone — and another 4,550 meetings were organised by RSS affiliates including Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Sewa Bharti, Vishva Hindu Parishad and others in that zone. These got up to attendance more than 4 lakh persons across the city altogether.
The meetings focused on a campaign of panch parivartan (five changes) which included environmental pollution, family values, corruption, social harmony and the Swadeshi movement. It was clear that the RSS had induced people to vote for BJP candidates as a vote in the national interest.
Since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the RSS has played a key role in BJP’s electoral campaigns. In Haryana, it played a key role, considering BJP won 48 out of 90 seats, and in Maharashtra, the Mahayuti alliance, including BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP, won 237 out of 288 seats.
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