RSS Centenary Outreach: Mohan Bhagwat To Travel To US For Diaspora Lecture Series

Last Updated:February 18, 2026, 00:06 IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is scheduled to travel to the United States for events organised by the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, but the dates are not yet confirmed

As part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s centenary outreach initiatives, sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is scheduled to travel to the United States for events organised by the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh.

The visit, positioned within the Sangh’s 100-year milestone, reflects its renewed focus on the global Indian diaspora.

Mohan Bhagwat, while responding to a question during his lecture series event in Mumbai last month, had mentioned his upcoming travel to the US and participation in the centenary outreach event. But, his travel dates are not yet confirmed. He, however, referred to the events organised by the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) and stressed on the cultural continuity between India and its overseas communities.

The HSS is an overseas organisation, spread across countries and registered as NGO or social-cultural service organisations. It is the unit abroad and inspired by the ideology of the RSS and was formed to engage members of the Indian diaspora and promote what it describes as Hindu cultural values, community service, and character-building outside India.

According to a senior RSS functionary, non-resident Indians (NRI) are not merely economic actors or professionals abroad  but they also carry “reflections of India’s culture", holding the civilisational values beyond geographical borders. In an increasingly polarised global discourse around migration, what the RSS implicitly frames Indian as the “good migrant" and also promotes the narrative, the functionary said. In contrast to political framings that reduce migrants to economic burdens or security concerns, Indian migrants have largely been viewed as contributors including professionals, entrepreneurs, and academics, who integrate while retaining cultural roots, the functionary added.

The functionary said the Sangh’s messaging for the global stage and the Indian diaspora appears carefully calibrated. At a time when migration debates are intensifying in western democracies, projecting the Indian diaspora as culturally rooted yet globally adaptive, serves both ideological and diplomatic purposes and reinforces the the long-standing belief that cultural identity is portable and resilient, the functionary added.

The Sangh’s centenary year also offers the RSS an opportunity to consolidate not only its domestic narrative but also its international footprint through affiliated, inspired or linked organisations like the HSS. Bhagwat’s visit signals that the Sangh sees the diaspora not as peripheral supporters, but as stakeholders in what it describes as a larger civilisational journey.

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