Overview
- Over two days of events in Lucknow, the RSS chief urged Hindu families to have at least three children, citing claims that societies below that average face long-term decline.
- He called for stopping conversions he described as driven by inducement or coercion, pressed to accelerate 'Ghar Wapsi', and said returnees should receive support and integration.
- Labeling illegal entrants as 'infiltrators', he said they should be detected, deleted and deported, and not given employment.
- Addressing scholars, he criticized the US and China for 'spreading fundamentalism', argued India holds solutions to global problems, said education and healthcare must not be commercialized, and accused colonial powers of distorting Indian education.
- Framing unity as central to the RSS mission, he urged ending caste discrimination with equal access to temples, wells and cremation grounds, as student groups held protests during his Lucknow University visit.