LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to attend 'Vishwa Sangh Shivir'

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Dec 16, 2015, 05:40 PM IST

Mohan Bhagwat will address a session presided by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair on January 2,

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat are among 700 representatives who will take part in the 6th 'Vishwa Sangh Shivir' (World Sangh Camp) to be held here from December 29 to January 3. The representatives from 40 countries across the globe will take part in the 'Shivir'.

"The event is being organised among others by Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), which runs different social activities worldwide," HSS international 'Sah-Sanyojak' (assistant coordinator) Ravi Kumar said.

"Mahajan will inaugurate the mega event aimed at promoting Indian culture and values world wide," he said.

Bhagwat will address a session presided by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair on January 2, Kumar informed.

Among others, representatives of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Sewa International and others organisations will take part in the camp, he said. Kumar further said that the first Vishwa Sangh Shivir was held in Bengaluru in 1990 and such camps had been organised at Vadodra, Mumbai, Gandhinagar and Pune.