Paying rich tributes to the RSS founder, BJP legislators visit Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Maharashtra's Nagpur

Nagpur, December 18: Maharashtra BJP legislators, including former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, visited the Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Reshimbaug area of Nagpur on Wednesday morning. The lawmakers, who are currently in Nagpur to attend the ongoing winter session of the state legislature, paid tributes at the memorial of RSS founder K B Hedgewar. They were welcomed at a programme held in the premises and later shown a short film on the memorial.

 

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) Nagpur Mahanagar sahsanghchalak Shridharrao Gadge briefed the legislators about the memorial and expressed hope that they will work for the people.

 

Hedgewar Smruti Mandir is a memorial in Reshimbagh, Nagpur dedicated to K B Hedgewar and M S Golwalkar, who were the first two leaders of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It was inaugurated in 1962 and was granted tourism status on the recommendation of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation in 2017.

 

K B Hedgewar was the founder of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS); when he died in 1940, his final rites were performed at the RSS headquarters in Reshimbagh and an unassuming samadhi was built there. Also when M S Gowalkar died, his memorial got constructed there.