The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will hold its annual review meeting in Jammu this year, PTI reported on Tuesday. The three-day meeting will start from July 18, unidentified sources told the news agency.
“Earlier we had a small office in Jammu but in the last few years it has been expanded,” said Manmohan Vaidya, Akhil Bhartiya Prachar Pramukh of the RSS. “Now they have volunteered to organise this meeting. This will be the first major meeting of the Sangh in Jammu and Kashmir.”
The annual review meeting of the prant parcharks [state publicity officers] is held to take stock of events and activities of the year gone by, Vaidya explained. He said the future course of action was also decided at the meeting.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah and Vishva Hindu Parishad leaders will attend the meeting.
The state of Jammu on Kashmir has been on the boil since Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani was killed by security forces on July 8, 2016. Scores of civilians have been killed and injured during protests and subsequent clashes with security personnel. Several restrictions have been imposed in the Valley to avoid escalation of tensions.
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