Priyanka Chaturvedi Reacts to RSS Chief’s Retirement Remark, Calls It a Message to BJP

By A Staff Reporter

Delhi: Shiv Sena (UBT) Member of Parliament Priyanka Chaturvedi has weighed in on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent comment that “leaders should retire at 75,” interpreting it as a pointed message to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leadership.

“It is a clear message and it is clearly directed at the person who is going to celebrate his 75th birthday in September,” Chaturvedi said, in an apparent reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turns 75 later this year. She further suggested that the RSS’s statement indicates unresolved tensions within the broader Sangh Parivar.

“When BJP formed government in 2014, they put their leaders above the age of 75 years in the ‘margdarshak mandali’,” she added, referring to the advisory group that was formed to accommodate senior leaders such as L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi. “Now, RSS is reminding BJP after 11 years about the promises it made.”

Chaturvedi claimed that what was once an internal matter has now come into public view. “Whatever is going on between the RSS and the BJP is clearly visible from their statements... Nobody knows the fallout of this conflict,” she said.