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Multi-dimensional Talent
Babubhai Ojha

Very perseverant nature, having nature to absorb in his
responsibility, inclined to worry for even minor things…as if
Babubhai had become one with the Sangh work.

There is a general notion about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh that only the people belonging to the elite Brahmin
families are linked with the Sangh, and other sections of the
society have no place in it. In fact, this fact is as distant from
truth as is land from the sky. In Gujarat, the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh is a Hindu organisation and has adopted
the Hinduism, so there is no question of any distinction on the
basis of caste or financial status. No greater importance is
attached to the higher classes, nor is any lower caste refused
entry. As a consequence, the rumoured deformity does not exist
in the Sangh even in the slight. All sections of the society are
represented in the Sangh. They all cooperate together, but no
high talks are held about this harmony; therefore, the rumour-
mongers find it convenient to confuse people. However, the
truth is truth, and cannot be denied.

Babubhai Ojha occupied high posts in the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh in Gujarat for many years. Due to his
subtitle ‘Ojha’ and as a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s
Swayamsevak, he was identified as a man belonging to an elite
Brahmin caste. There is no tradition of identifying people by
the caste, and so, the suspicion revolving around the caste was
never taken seriously.