Chennai: Ahead of Vijayadashami, RSS procession marches were held at 100 locations across Tamil Nadu, including 7 places in Chennai.
In each area, hundreds participated in uniform in a disciplined manner. Ahead of Vijayadashami, RSS members sought police permission to hold procession marches and public meetings at 128 locations across Tamil Nadu. After the police denied permission, they approached the Madras High Court.
Following this, the High Court granted permission to hold the rally based on the Supreme Court’s guidelines. Subsequently, as the first phase, rallies were held yesterday evening at 100 locations across Tamil Nadu.
In Chennai’s Egmore, the rally began near the Ramada Hotel. At the opening ceremony, special prayers were offered to the RSS flag, and arati was performed.

Participants in the RSS parade rally held in Thanjavur.
In this, former BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan performed an aarti to the flag and paid her respects. Then, the procession began amid the beating of drums. Even though it was raining at the time, the volunteers participated wearing uniforms.
The procession proceeded via L.G. Road and the Cooum River Road and concluded near Rajarathinam Stadium. Following this, a public meeting was held.
At this event, Swami Abhayanand Maharaj, editor of the Ramakrishna Math’s Ramakrishna Vijayam magazine, RSS South India executive committee member Anand Raghunathan, district president Suresh Raghuraman, and others participated and delivered special addresses.
The procession that began near the Perambur Peravallur junction was inaugurated by RSS South India service in-charge Poo.Mu. Ravikumar. He then delivered a special address.
The procession held in Thiruvottiyur Kaladipettai was inaugurated by RSS South India Dharma awareness organizer Rama Rajasekar.
Later, he delivered a special address at the public meeting held in Periyar Nagar. In the procession held near the Ayyappanthangal bus depot, RSS North Tamil Nadu publicity wing state joint secretary Gopalakrishnan and others participated.
Similarly, marches were also held in areas including Korattur, Chromepet, and Medavakkam. In that way, marches were held yesterday at 100 locations across Tamil Nadu, including 7 places in Chennai.
At all the places where the marches were held, hundreds of police personnel were deployed on security duty to prevent any untoward incidents. Meanwhile, the RSS has said that a parade march will be held on Nov. 1 in the remaining 28 locations in Tamil Nadu.
