New Delhi: Dattatreya Hosable, joint secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, also was elected as the general secretary of the Sangh at a meeting held in Bengaluru on Saturday.
The 65-year-old native of Karnataka, will replace Suresh Bhaiyyaji (73), who held the second highest post of the Sangh since 2009.
The decision was taken in a two-day meet of Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS).
The highest decision making body of the Sangh, which began on Friday.
Though the elections are conducted in the annual meet of the ABPS at Nagpur.
The headquaters of the RSS, but this year, due to rising Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra and restrictions reimposed, the venue was shifted to Bengaluru of Karnataka.
Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha of RSS elected Shri Dattatreya Hosabale as its Sarkaryavah.
He was Sah Sarkaryavah of RSS since 2009,” the RSS said in a tweet.
Hosable, born in Sorab in Shivamogga of Karnataka in 1954. He is a post graduate in English literature and had joined the RSS in 1968.
Also He was a member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), student wing of the RSS, during the initial years.
He was elected as the general secretary of the ABVP in 1978 and held the post for 12 years. In the RSS, he has been credited for his work in Guwahati of Assam.
