Dattatreya Hosabale

Dattatreya Hosabale (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian activist. He became the Sah-Sarakaryavaah (Joint General Secretary)[1] of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). During the period of Indian Emergency from 1975 to 1977 he was arrested under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and imprisoned for 16 months. He also served as the general secretary for the student organization, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad for 15 years.

Dattatreya Hosabale
Sah-Sarkaryavaah of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
In office
Incumbent
Personal details
Born
Dattatreya Hosabale
NationalityIndian
OccupationSah-Sarkaryavaah

Early life

Dattatreya Hosabale was born in Sorab in Shimoga, Karnataka.[2] Hailing from a family of RSS activists, he is the founding trustee of India Policy Foundation, a non-profit policy research organization.[3]

Association with RSS

He is a post graduate in English literature. He joined RSS in 1968 and then ABVP in 1972. He became a full-time organizer in 1978.[4][5] He played an active role in setting up the Youth Development Centre in Guwahati, Assam.

He was the founding editor of Aseema, a Kannada monthly. He became Sah-Baudhik Pramukh (second in command of the intellectual wing of RSS) in 2004. He is fluent in Kannada, Hindi, English, Tamil and Sanskrit.[6]

He has voiced his opinion on Indian Secularism being anti-Hindu, saying "When it comes to the Idea of India, there is no dispute as such; the point is that there can be a variety of ideas and each must be permitted its space. It’s not necessary that they should be at loggerheads or contradictory to each other" [7]

Views

He termed football as symbol of global oneness.

Football has been a great unifier having admirers, fans, adherents and adepts across civilisations, continents & borders. It has been so since ages – in ancient India, as in ancient Greece the game of tackling the ball and hitting it around with the foot was a hugely popular sport enjoyed by the vast majority – ruler as well as the commoner.[8]

References
  1. "Dr. Manmohan Vaidya and Shri. Mukund are new Sah-Sarkaryavah". rss.org. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  2. "Karnataka man may be No. 2 in RSS - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  3. "Welcome to India policy foundation". www.indiapolicyfoundation.org. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  4. "RSS conclave: All eyes on Dattatreya Hosabale elevation". The Statesman. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  5. Yuva Bharati. Vivekananda Rock Memorial Committee. 1984.
  6. Organiser. "Organiser - Content". organiser.org. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  7. "Dattatreya Hosabale: 'Secularism in India has been anti-Hindu'". OPEN Magazine. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  8. "FOOTBALL - the symbol of global oneness - Dattatreya Hosabale". Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
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