Maharashtra: BJP chief Nadda reaches Pune to attend 3-day RSS meet

Bharatiya Janata Party BJP national president JP Nadda arrived in Pune on Thursday to attend a threeday coordination meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS which will begin today on Thursday September 14As many as 36 organizations affiliated with the Sangh will take part in the annual conclave attended by top RSS leaders an official release of the organisation said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will also attend the meetingThe meeting will discuss issues ranging from an environmentfriendly lifestyle to maintaining social harmony will come up for discussion it saidTopics including environmentfriendly lifestyle life valuebased family system insistence on social harmony swadeshi and performance of civic duties will be discussed at the gatheringThe meeting will also compile challenges faced by society decide a direction and work with national spirit so that the pace of work can increase and the current socioeconomic scenario in the country will also be discussedAlso read All Indians are Hindus and Hindu represents all Indians RSS chief Mohan BhagwatRepresentatives of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Vidya Bharti Saksham Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram Seva Bharti Rashtra Sevika Samiti Vishwa Hindu Parishad BJP Bharatiya Kisan Sangh and other allied organizations will also take part in the gatheringMeanwhile stating that we do not need to make it mandatory Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said if manufacturers want to be in the competition they have to make six airbags as people are cautious nowAddressing the 63rd Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India ACMA annual session in the national capital Gadkari said People are cautious now Whichever economic model has six airbags people will prefer to buy that car We do not need to make it mandatory It is the manufacturers who have to decideHe further said Everyone is making it we do not need to make it mandatory Those who do not want to do it are facing problems as far as their sale is concerned If they want to be in the competition they have to make six airbags If they do not want it it is their problemEarlier in 2022 Union Minister Gadkari had approved the proposal mandating a minimum of 6 airbags in passenger cars and said the new rule would come into effect from October 1 2023A draft notification in this regard was issued on January 14 2022The draft mandated that vehicles of category M1 manufactured after 1st October 2022 shall be fitted with two sideside torso airbags one each for the persons occupying front row outboard seating positions and two side curtaintube airbags one each for the persons occupying outboard seating positions read a statement by Ministry of Road Transport and HighwaysLast year wellknown industrialist and former Tata Sons chairman Mistry died in a road accident after which the issue of the six airbags rule was raisedAfter Mistry died in the road accident in Palghar in Maharashtra police had asked the car manufacturer company why the airbags in the illfated SUV did not open at the time of the accident With inputs from ANI