Prime Minister Narendra Modi through the centenary celebrations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). | Photo Credit: X/@NarendraModi

Kamala Gavai, Chief Justice of India Bhushan Gavai’s mom, on Wednesday (October 1, 2025) stated she wouldn’t attend a centenary program of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Maharashtra’s Amravati on October 5.

She determined to not attend the programme as chief visitor in view of the controversy the information generated and the accusations and slander she confronted, she stated in an open letter.

Some individuals invited her to the October 5 programme; and as she harbours good needs for everybody, she welcomes everybody, Kamala Gavai (84) stated.

“(But) As soon as the news of the programme was published, many people started criticizing and levelling allegations at not only me but late Dadasaheb Gavai (her husband, former Bihar Governor R S Gavai). We have lived our lives as per (Dr B R) Ambedkar’s ideology, while Dadasaheb Gavai dedicated his life to the Ambedkarite movement. Sharing our ideology on the platform of different ideology is also important, which needs courage,” she wrote within the letter.

Her husband intentionally attended programmes of organisations subscribing to reverse ideologies and raised the problems of the disadvantaged lessons, she stated, including that he attended RSS’s programmes however by no means accepted its Hindutva.

“If I had been on the dais (at the October 5 RSS function), I would have put forward the Ambedkarite ideology,” Ms. Kamalatai wrote.

But as she and her late husband confronted a volley of accusations, and makes an attempt had been made to malign her “because of one programme”, she felt very unhappy and determined to place an finish to all this by deciding to not attend the the Sangh perform, she acknowledged.

She was ailing and present process medical therapy, she talked about.

Published – October 01, 2025 10:34 pm IST