Who is Hosabale?
Known as ‘Dattaji’, Hosabale (69) has been serving as the ‘Sarkaryavah’ since 2021. He was born on 1 December 1954 in a Yadav family in Hosabale village in Soraba taluk of Shimoga district of Karnataka. His family had several RSS activists.
He is proficient in many languages including English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Marathi, and his mother tongue Kannada. He holds a Master’s degree in English. He is the founder-editor of the popular Kannada & English monthly ‘Aseema’.
At the age of 13, he became a volunteer of the Sangh in 1968 and in 1972, he joined its student wing – the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). He took active participation in the 1975-77 JP movement and even went to jail for two and a half years under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act during the Emergency.
In 1978, he served as the Nagpur Municipal Contact Head of Vidyarthi Parishad (Student Council) and was known for playing an important role in running the Youth Development Center in Guwahati.
In 2003, he became in charge of intellectual training of the RSS. In 2004, he became Sahbaudhik pramukh (second in command of the intellectual wing of RSS) in 2004. In 2009, he was made Sah-Sarkaryawah (co-general secretary).
He became Sarkaryavah of the organisation in 2009, a role he continued till 2021. In April 2015, he was sent as the head of the relief team and material by the Sangh at the time of the massive earthquake in Nepal.
Hosabale took over as the RSS general secretary from Bhaiyaji Joshi in 2021.
(With additional inputs from ANI and PTI)
