Opposition leaders go missing as prominent personalities attend RSS event. LIVE UPDATES HERE

Update at 7:15 PM: Why boycott only hindus? Tomorrow I will discuss in detail about this: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 7:06 PM: The country's past present and future should be dependent on the people of the country: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:59 PM: We don't show them the way, they can go wherever they want. Sangh works in all society, all languages and everywhere. The RSS doesn't take any money from outside or from anyone: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:50 PM: Something or the other thing is done right but it is not valued. It is important to follow civic sense. Don't have to die for the country everyday, you have to live too. Having a civic sense is very important: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:40 PM: There is so much diversity in India, so many god and goddesses, 33,000 crore. There are atheists, there are so many languages, there are so many ideologies. And if we have to walk together we have to make some sacrifices: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:35 PM: RSS formed to unite the Hindu community back in 1925. Hedgewar wanted to create as many swayamsevaks as possible, and that was his only aim: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwa

Update at 6:24 PM: Varghese Kurian wrote a book 'I too had a dream'. We have to make our society literate then only change can take place: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:20 PM: In our country we have this culture of changing the society, and we have solution to every problem. I think we need Nayaks in every other place who work for the people: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:17 PM: Today in everyday life politics take place. You have seen that. In society there are so many differences: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:07 PM: RSS misunderstood because it's unique. People target RSS because of fear: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 6:00 PM: It is impossible to understand sangh without understanding Dr. Hedgewar. Dr. Hedgewar was born in a small family. They were 3 siblings. Since childhood, he had aspirations of independence. He had to study in difficult circumstances. He lost his mother and father both on the same day due to plague: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 5:57 PM: What RSS does is unique and beyond comparison. Because Sangh has a unique identity, it gets popular amongst people. Our Delhi volunteers thought that people should know more about Sangh and hence this program is being held: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Update at 5:56 PM: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat starts speaking at the RSS event.

Update at 5:37 PM: Vande Mataram being sung in the auditorium ahead of the start of RSS event.

Update at 5:33 PM: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat takes his seat ahead of the event at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi.

Update at 5:30 PM: Yogeshwar Dutt, Malini Awasthi, Manisha Koirala, Hansraj Hans, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anu Malik, Anu Kapoor, Uday Bhaskar are all present at the RSS event

Update at 5:28 PM: Senior Congress leaders like Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh decide to skip the RSS event. 

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The RSS will hold a three-day event starting Monday evening at the Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi, for which many prominent personalities, including leaders from different political parties have been called. The central theme of this event would be 'Hindutva'. 

It comes a few days after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat addressed a large crowd at the World Hindu Congress in Chicago, wherein he spoke on a number of issues relating to the Hindu religion.