Sudarshanji steps down, Mohan Bhagwatji new RSS Sar Sangh Chalak 22/03/2009 02:10:19  With Media Inputs Rashtriya Swayayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Sar Sangh Chalak KS Sudarshan on Saturday stepped down after nearly nine years at the helm, paving way for general secretary Mohan Bhagwat to succeed him, RSS sources said here. The change of guard in the Sangh Parivar hierarchy came on the second day of the RSS' three-day Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha, which is in progress at Reshimbagh Smruti Mandir here. RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav, while talking to the media, said that this time a relatively younger person was chosen as the RSS chief Veteran ideologue Suresh Soni will be the new Sar Karyawaha (general secretary) of the Sangh Parivar fountainhead, the sources added. Kuppahalli Sitaramayya Sudarshan was nine when he first attended an RSS shakha. He was appointed as a pracharak in 1954. Only full-time members of RSS can become pracharaks. His first posting as a pracharak was in Raigarh district. In 1964, he was made the prant pracharak of Madhya Bharat at a fairly young age. In 1969, he was appointed convener of the heads of All-India Organisations’. This was followed by a stint in the North-East (1977) and he took over as the chief of the Boudhik Cell (the RSS think-tank) two years later. Since 1990, Sudarshan has been a joint general secretary of the organisation. He has the rare distinction of having held both posts of sharirik (physical exercises) and baudhik (intellectual) pramukh (chief) on different occasions. Mohan Bhagwatji Shri Mohan ji Bhagwat hails from a small town called Chandrpur in Maharashtra. A veterinary doctor by education, Mohanji dedicated himself completely for the service of society and became a pracharak (full time volunteer) of RSS. Shri Mohanji held various responsibilities in Sangh as a district pracharak for Akola, provincial pracharak for Nagpur, zonal Pracharak for Bihar and subsequently he became the Sar karyawah, the constitutional head of RSS. Since more than three years he is at this position and has been re-elected for next three year term recently. A prolific speaker, thinker, and a pleasant person, Shri Mohanji has inspired hundreds of youths to dedicate themselves for Sangh and work for the Hindu society selflessly.  All swayamsevaks across the globe stands up to give this great leader a full hearted pranam and wish him all the best. For Interview with Mananeeya Mohan Bhagvatji in Malayalam http://www.janmabhumionline.net/pdf/mohanjibhagavath.pdf