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New Delhi: Dattatreya Hosabale is likely to be re-elected as the sarkaryavah or general secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the annual meeting of its apex decision-making body, the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), to be held in Nagpur from 15 to 17 March, ThePrint has learnt...
The ABPS includes representatives from 45 prants (divisions) and various frontal organisations of the RSS, and key resolutions are passed at its meeting..
Elections for this post are generally held in Nagpur but took place in Bengaluru in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, an RSS functionary told ThePrint...
He worked in Assam and was quite instrumental in setting up the Youth Development Centre in Guwahati that also helped the RSS expand its base in the northeast, the functionary said.. Hosabale joined the RSS in 1968 and worked in its student affiliate, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), from 1972 onwards..
In 2003, he became the RSSs akhil bharatiya sah bauddhik pramukh (in charge of intellectual training) and the sah sarkaryavah of the Sangh in 2009, in which role he continued till 19 March, 2021...
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