Mumbai: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat is all set to attend the marriage ceremony of Devidas Kamdi, who works as a cook at his office, in Dadar on Friday. Bhagwat stays in Dadar during his visits to the city.
“We work here as a family and whenever he is here, Bhagwatji interacts with us just as a head of a family would do. Sometime ago, during one such sessions, Bhagwatji had casually asked Devidas regarding his plans to get married and had even assured him that he would attend his marriage ceremony,” said Ramratan Yadav, who looks after Pitruchaya, the RSS office.
When Devidas finally decided to get married, he informed Bhagwat about it and invited him to his village. “Bhagwatji has assured us that he will come. This will be the biggest day for us,” said Manoj, younger brother of Devidas.
“Non-formal approach and a strong bond of being part of a big family form the core of RSS style of functioning. Mohanji’s act is just a manifestation of that style,” said Dilip Kshirsagar, senior office bearer, who looks after the publicity wing of RSS in Western Maharashtra.
“Devidas is from the Torandongri village on the Mumbai-Gujarat border in Surgana taluka. The marriage will take place at around noon at the remote Anand pada locality of the village,” said Jagan Pawar, senior office bearer of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, the RSS outfit that works in the tribal area.
“Devidas came in contact with the RSS around 10 years ago. He wanted to go to a big city like Mumbai to earn his living and he had an interest in cooking. Around eight years ago, when there was an opportunity, he started working at the RSS offices and has been at Pitruchaya for the past couple of years,” said Pawar. Bhagwat’s two-day Nashik tour does not include any other public programme or a meeting. “He is coming here exclusively to attend the marriage ceremony,” Kshirsagar said.
