{"id":356083,"date":"2025-08-28T21:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=356083"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:57:12","slug":"bhagwat-dismisses-retirement-at-75-years-says-i-never-said-i-will-retire-or-someone-should-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bhagwat-dismisses-retirement-at-75-years-says-i-never-said-i-will-retire-or-someone-should-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagwat dismisses retirement at 75 years, says ‘I never said I will retire or someone should retire’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Sangh, individuals are given a job whether they want it or not, and even if one is 80 years old, if asked to do a job, they will do it: RSS chief\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said that the Sangh did not take decisions on internal matters of its affiliated organisations (like BJP) and that they were free and self-dependent to execute and manage their affairs. Answering questions about relation with its political arm\u2014the BJP\u2014and the perceptions that the Sangh decides everything related to its organisations, Bhagwat said \u201cto say that RSS decides everything is completely wrong… Had we been deciding, would it have taken this long?\u201d He was responding to a question regarding delay in the selection of a new BJP president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to questions on the last day of his three-day lecture series in Vigyan Bhawan at Delhi, Bhagwat said that the perception of the RSS deciding \u201ceverything\u201d for the BJP is \u201ccompletely wrong\u201d. As a message to the BJP, he said \u201ctake your time. We have nothing to say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also spoke about the oft-question regarding an unsaid rule that BJP leaders would retire from active politics once they are 75 years old. Bhagwat said that he never said that either him or anyone else should retire. In Sangh, individuals are given a job whether they want it or not, and even if one is 80 years old, if asked to do a job, they will do it, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026I never said I will retire or that someone should retire. In Sangh, we are given a job, whether we want it or not. If I am 80 years old, and the Sangh says go and run a \u2018shakha,\u2019 I will have to do it. We do whatever the Sangh tells us to do… This is not about anyone’s retirement. We are ready to retire or work as long as the Sangh wants us to,\u201d he said, setting at rest speculations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may retire from his post after his 75th birthday in September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhagwat, incidentally. will turn 75 days before PM Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bhagwat said that the RSS has good coordination with all governments at the centre and states, but systems sometimes have internal contradictions. Even if the person in the chair is 100 per cent with us, he may have hurdles. \u201cSo, we have to give him independence. There is no quarrel anywhere\u2026but being on the same page on all issues is not possible; we always trust each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can have differences of opinion, but we never have differences of heart,\u201d he said, dismissing talks of tensions with BJP. The Sangh and its organisations were guided by the policy of \u201cnation first\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDifferences stem from ideologies. We can have some differences in opinion, but no differences in intent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhagwat also said that the RSS \u2018does not tell\u2019 the government how to deal with US President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Sangh, individuals are given a job whether they want it or not, and even if one is 80 years old, if asked to do a job, they will do it: RSS chief\u00a0 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said that the Sangh did not take decisions on internal matters of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":356084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[16188,16786,19216,15700,16422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356083"}],"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=356083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356086,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356083\/revisions\/356086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/356084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}