{"id":354874,"date":"2025-07-10T23:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354874"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:55:25","slug":"should-leaders-retire-at-75-bhagwats-remarks-reignite-speculations-about-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/should-leaders-retire-at-75-bhagwats-remarks-reignite-speculations-about-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Should leaders retire at 75, Bhagwat\u2019s remarks reignite speculations about PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat\u2019s recent suggestion that leaders should retire after 75 has resulted in opposition leaders wondering if it was a hint directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turns 75 this September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally RSS chief Bhagwat will also turn 75 this year. His remarks have also led to the buzz whether it was also an indication that the BJP\u2019s powerful ideological mentor was considering a change of guard.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you turn 75, it means you should stop now and make way for others,\u201d Bhagwat was quoted as saying at a book release event dedicated to late RSS ideologue Moropant Pingle in Nagpur. Speaking after releasing the book, \u2018Moropant Pinglay: The Architect of Hindu Resurgence,\u2019 Bhagwat recalled that Pingle once said, \u201cIf you are honoured with a shawl after turning 75, it means that you should stop now, you are old, step aside and let others come in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a jibe at PM Modi, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote in Hindi on \u2018X\u2019: \u201cPoor award-winning Prime Minister! What a homecoming-reminded by RSS chief upon return that he will turn 75 on September 17, 2025.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut the Prime Minister could also tell the RSS chief that-he (Bhagwat) too will turn 75 on September 11, 2025!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said that \u201cPM Modi forced leaders like LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Jaswant Singh to retire after they turned 75. Let us see if he applies the same rule to himself now\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi added saying that preaching without practising was dangerous and unprincipled. His party colleague Pawan Khera wrote \u201c Now both (PM Modi and Bhagwat) pick up the bag and do \u2018margdarshan\u2019 for each other\u201d. The \u2018Margdarshak Mandal\u2019 is a body formed by the BJP in August 2014 with leaders like former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, PM Modi, and veterans Advani and Joshi as members.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM Modi returned to India on Thursday after concluding his five-nation tour that included Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil and Namibia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also attended the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat\u2019s recent suggestion that leaders should retire after 75 has resulted in opposition leaders wondering if it was a hint directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turns 75 this September. Incidentally RSS chief Bhagwat will also turn 75 this year. His remarks have also led to the buzz whether it was also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":354875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[16188,19216,15700,16422,19726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354876,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354874\/revisions\/354876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}