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Mr. Hosabale was speaking to the media at the conclusion of the Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal meeting, which began in Indore on Monday (November 2, 2026).
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) said that “anarchic forces”, both within India and outside, were trying to provoke the country’s youth with the aim of creating unrest. Regime change, he said, must take place through elections and not violence. He said Sangh members had extensively discussed the anger among young people over genuine issues such as unemployment and paper leaks.
“This is a democracy and governments change through elections. Whatever political goals people may have in wanting a change of government but stirring unrest in society, dividing people or turning to violence does not serve society’s interest,” Mr. “Positive dialogue with the new generation is needed. We should explain things to them…. There was a time when we were Gen Z; even we used to protest and raise our voices for things we thought were incorrect. We were part of the JP movement. We were the youth of that era,” Mr. Responding to a question about the RSS’s views on the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, Mr. “There are people who are dead but their names exist in our poll records. Don’t you want it to be corrected? He claimed that he had never voted in his hometown but had voted in places where he had lived for decades. “There are ways to channelise it. But to misuse it, to do political selfishness in it, to try to break society in it, or to use violence, should absolutely not be done.
Citing the 2025 Gen Z movement in Nepal which brought the government down, Mr.
Hosabale said. Hosabale said that forces were trying to provoke people from within the country as well as from outside. “Going by what other countries have experienced, it seems there may also be a conspiracy behind this,” he added. Hosabale said he was puzzled by the political uproar over a process he described as a “routine exercise”. There are cases where one person’s name is there at two places,” he said, citing his own example. He also said that non-citizens had found their way onto voter lists, which he described as a threat to economic and social security. Earlier reporting noted: Youth aspirations, grievances require attention, dialogue: RSS’s Dattatreya Hosabale Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Wednesday said youth aspirations and grievances require attention and dialogue, even as he accused “anarchic forces” within and outside the country of trying to provoke and misuse youth for political interests, social division, and violence. Earlier reporting noted: Hosabale referred to the 1970s JP movement under socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan’s leadership against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government, and said every young generation gets a feeling of anti-establishment. We oppose this,” he said following a three-day annual meeting of RSS, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ideological fount, in Indore. Earlier reporting noted: He said addressing genuine youth concerns, preventing disruptive forces from gaining influence, and encouraging socially conscious citizens to actively counter such tendencies were among the issues discussed at the meeting.
