New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) paid homage on Wednesday to Vandaniya Pramila Tai Medhe, the former Chief Director of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, calling her passing the loss of a “maternal shelter from above our heads.”
In a message posted on social media platform X, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat lauded her lifelong service to the Samiti, the women’s wing of the Sangh Parivar and said her death marked the culmination of a “long penance” that began nearly with the organisation’s inception.“She was a living example of an unerring understanding of and dedication to the goal, relentless hard work for the growth of the work, and warmth in her conduct,” the post said.
Describing her as someone who offered her entire life to the Samiti’s cause, the RSS chief said that she had also pledged to donate her body after death. “In the sacrificial fire of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti’s work, she offered her life as an oblation, and ultimately, through her resolve to donate her body after death, she dedicated even her physical form,” he the post said.
Bhagwat said her “salvation is assured” due to her lifetime of service and spiritual discipline. “We pray at the feet of the Almighty that we all receive the patience to move forward on the path of our goal without her,” he added. The Rashtra Sevika Samiti, founded in 1936, is the largest Hindu nationalist women’s organisation in India and works parallel to the RSS, which is its ideological counterpart for men.