RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Call For Leaders To Retire At 75 Sparks Opposition Debate

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comment on Thursday about the practice of stepping aside at the age of 75 has sparked questions from the Opposition about whether he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also step down from their posts.

Bhagwat Modi will turn 75 in September. The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

At an event in Nagpur on Wednesday to launch a book about late RSS ideologue Moropant Pingle, Bhagwat narrated an anecdote about a meeting of the Hindutva organisation in which Pingle was felicitated with a shawl on turning 75.