The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological source of the BJP, has completed a huge headquarters building in Delhi. It is located in Keshav Kunj, New Delhi at a cost of Rs 150 crore. It is being described as India’s new ‘power house’.
Spread over 3.75 acres, the RSS office has three 12-storey towers and around 300 rooms. The new office will be used to organize RSS programs and provide accommodation for RSS workers and leaders.
It will also house a hospital and a temple. The construction, which began in 2018, uses both ancient and modern technologies. The main auditorium will be dedicated to the memory of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal, one of the main advocates of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The three towers – ground floor and 12 floors – are named Sadhana, Prerna and Archana. The name of the building will continue to be Keshav Kunj.
The costs were met by collecting donations from the public. At least 75,000 donors contributed to its construction. Some final interior work is still underway.
The building has a large solar power facility; its library has 8,500 books and is open to researchers. The building complex also houses a clinic with a five-bed hospital. The rented space had been used as an RSS office since 2016, following the start of reconstruction and renovation of the space, which has been in operation since 1962.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale will attend the “Karyakarta Sammelan” of the organization’s Delhi unit from its new building in Jhandewalan, Delhi on February 19.
The Nagpur-based organisation will organise the ‘Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha’, considered the highest decision-making body of the RSS, in Bengaluru from March 21 to March 23. Around 1,500 people, including senior office bearers of the RSS and its affiliated organisations, will meet to discuss key issues, including organisational matters. Resolutions will be passed clarifying the RSS’s stand on various issues.
