RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to interact with Gen Alpha, Gen Z students in Mumbai on August 6

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will interact with Gen Alpha and Gen Z students in Mumbai on August 6 days after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Union Education Minister following the Cockroach Janta Party CJPled youth protests over the NEET exam paper leakBhagwat will address the inaugural ceremony of Indias International Movement to Unite Nations IIMUN Annual Championship Conference at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre NMACC marking the organisations 15th anniversary reported PTIThe event will bring together more than 2000 students aged between 15 and 19 from over 100 cities across the country Gen Alpha includes individuals born between 2010 and 2024 making them up to 16 years old in 2026 Gen Z comprises those born between 1997 and 2012 placing them in the 14ndash29 age groupBhagwat to address youth on global unityBhagwats address will inaugurate IIMUNs flagship Annual Championship Conference where students will debate and deliberate on local national and international issuesThe inaugural ceremony will revolve around the theme The Role of Youth in Uniting the World the Indian WayEvent comes after Pradhans resignationBhagwats interaction with students comes days after Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation as Union Education Minister on July 25 following the CJPled protests at Jantar Mantar over the NEET exam paper leakThe protests began on June 20 and culminated in a widely attended Sansad Chalo march on July 20Mohan Bhagwat says LGBTQ community is part of society has right to live with dignityEarlier Bhagwat said the LGBTQ community is an integral part of Indian society and should not be ostracised or treated with prejudiceSpeaking at an event in Hyderabad Bhagwat said diverse sexual orientations and gender identities have always existed in society with some being innate and others developing over timeLGBTQ and all these communities exist Such tendencies are present in society Some are innate determined by nature itself neither we nor they can do anything about it that is simply how they were born Bhagwat saidHowever some are acquired later due to mindset or arise from physical inclinations Since this phenomenon exists worldwide we cannot claim it was absent here We are human too and it existed among us as well We made quiet arrangements for them he addedBhagwat said Indian traditions have long acknowledged the existence of LGBTQ individuals recognising that while some conditions may be curable others are notThey are human beings too and have a right to live They are not ostracised from society there is a place for them within the vast tapestry of social life We are taught not to view them with a sense of inferiority he saidHe further noted that members of the LGBTQ community have their own deities shrines and even Mahamandaleshwars who participate in the Kumbh MelaRather than making unnecessary noise or fanfare about these matters we handled them quietly to ensure society maintained a sympathetic attitude toward them We made proper discreet arrangements recognising them as integral parts of our own society Bhagwat addedWith PTI inputs