Mumbai: Most of the analysts including senior Mahayuti leaders have given credit to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for the support it lent to the ruling combine ahead of the recently concluded state assembly elections in Maharashtra. Though, collective leadership is the principle that RSS practices in everyday life, if any one person is to be given the credit of the efforts that would indeed be Atul Limaye, the Sah Sarakaryavah of the RSS.
Born in a lawyers’ family in Nashik and an engineer by education, Limaye left his corporate career to become RSS ‘pracharak’ in early ‘90s. After his initial years in Western Maharashtra and Raigad in Konkan region, he became Sah Prant Pracharak of Devgiri Prant (Marathwada and North Maharashtra regions) where he got a chance to closely study the agrarian economy and its socio-political aspects. When the BJP came to power in Maharashtra in 2014 he was in charge of the Western Maharashtra. His role was crucial in appointments of several of the heads of educational institutions and government institutions.
At the same time he also led a large team of highly trained and ideologically robust young men and women to form several study groups, research teams and think tanks to study a wide range of issues right from the demographic aggression of Muslims and Christians to policy making in the present government set up. These groups and institutions proved useful for the state government in handling Maratha agitation that began in 2017 and the Urban Naxal upheaval the next year.
As Sah Sarakaryavah, he was the key person who called shots behind the curtains during the present assembly polls in Maharashtra. He began by conducting a mega congregation of the individuals attached with the publicity arm of the RSS from all the areas of the state. He also ensured that the Shakha level Karyakarta of the RSS too is mobilized to be able to take on, what can be described as the biggest political challenge, that the Hindutva forces faced.
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