Published 10:35 IST, March 14th 2020
RSS cancels meet of highest decision-making body in wake of Coronavirus, seeks cooperation
Amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak, the annual meet of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the highest decision-making body of the RSS has been called off.
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Amid dely coronavirus outbreak, annual meet of Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), highest decision-making body of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has been called off by General Secretary of RSS Suresh (Bhayyaji) Joshi on Saturday. meed was scheduled March 15 to 17 in Bengaluru.
seventh ABPS meet was supposed to be conducted by Suresh Joshi, Sarkaryvah Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in presence of Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat. Also, presidents and or state office bearers of 35 Parivar organisations like VHP (Justice Vishnu Sashiva Kokje and Alok Kumar), ABVP (Prof Subbaiah Shanmugam), Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (Saji Narayanan), Vidya Bharati (Ramakrishna Rao), Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram (Jagev Rao Oraon), BJP (J P Nda) and Sakshama (Dyal Singh Pawar) were supposed to participate in event.
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Coronavirus in India
As of date, total number of positive cases in India has soared to 88, while two deaths have also been reported, in Kalaburagi and West Delhi respectively.
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India has suspended all visas, barring for a few categories such as diplomatic and employment apart from keeping in abeyance visa-free travel facility to OCI cardholders till April 15. Moreover, Centre has “strongly vised” Indians to avoid all n-essential travel abro. government is also monitoring all suspected cases and issued preventive visories.
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Coronavirus crisis
First detected in Wuhan in December 2019, COVID-19- vel coronavirus has affected nearly 118 countries in world. Presently, re are over 1,24,518 confirmed cases of COVID-19 which has led to death of 4,607 people. As re is vaccine or specific antiviral medicine to treat COVID-19, countries have been grappling with all possible mechanisms to contain its scope. So far, China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran have witnessed most number of confirmed cases of vel coronavirus.
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10:35 IST, March 14th 2020