The history of RSS reveals one interesting aspect. It has always been surrounded by challenges since its inception, and they have been both the cause and effect of its moral and physical strength. Dr Hedgewar founded it in 1925 with a sole vision to uplift the nation from the miseries of ideas, an unevolved national character, fractured social life, and above all, the state of amnesia of its own glorious life in its thousands of years of history.

Rakesh Sinha, Former MP, Rajya Sabha, Pioneer