Rama Krishna Sangem
Referring to US President Donald Trump’s tariff war on Indian goods, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on October 2, Thursday that adopting swadeshi goods and embracing self-reliance are the only ways forward.
Delivering his Vijayadashami address from the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, Bhagwat said that in an interconnected world, India’s dependence on trading partners should not turn into helplessness and that the country must focus on indigenous production. He said that being aatmanirbhar (self-reliant) would only allow India to “act according to our own will”. “There is no substitute for swadeshi and swavalamban,” he added.
“The world functions on interdependence. No nation can live in isolation. This interdependence should not be turned into compulsion. We must move towards swadeshi and self-reliance; there is no alternative. Our harmony must be our own,” he said during RSS’s centenary celebrations.
He said that being aatmanirbhar (self-reliant) would only allow India to “act according to our own will”. “There is no substitute for swadeshi and swavalamban,” he added.
The world functions on interdependence. No nation can live in isolation. This interdependence should not be turned into compulsion. We must move towards swadeshi and self-reliance; there is no alternative. Our harmony must be our own,” he said during RSS’s centenary celebrations.
On Nepal developments
The RSS chief also went on to speak about the recent Gen Z protests in Nepal that brought about a violent end to the KP Oli government and warned that such events only give way to “foreign powers to meddle”. “Violent uprising doesn’t lead to anything. They only lead to anarchy. Unrest gives opportunity to foreign powers to meddle,” he said.
Calling the revolution in India’s backyard not a “good sign,” Bhagwat said that differences with the government should always be expressed through a legal router. “The grammar of anarchy needs to be stopped,” he said.Bhagwat also pointed out that such violent revolutions don’t bring any concrete outcome.
“But using this way to express their unhappiness benefits no one… If we see the history of all the political revolutions so far, none of them has ever achieved their objective… All the revolutions in nations with governments have transformed frontal nations into capitalist nations,” he said.
