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{{Short description|Volunteer organization of Indian National Congress}} | |||
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| name = Congress Seva Dal | | name = Congress Seva Dal | ||
| image = | | image = | ||
| type = [[Center | | type = [[Centrism|Center | ||
politics | politics]], Peaceful Militia | ||
| founded_date = 28 December 1923<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/congress-sewa-dal-undergoes-overhaul-to-take-on-rss-for-2019-lok-sabha/articleshow/64845323.cms | title=Congress Sewa Dal undergoes overhaul to take on RSS for 2019 Lok Sabha | first=Shailvee | last=Sharda | date=3 July 2018 | newspaper=The Times of India | access-date=7 September 2020 }}</ref> | | founded_date = 28 December 1923<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/congress-sewa-dal-undergoes-overhaul-to-take-on-rss-for-2019-lok-sabha/articleshow/64845323.cms | title=Congress Sewa Dal undergoes overhaul to take on RSS for 2019 Lok Sabha | first=Shailvee | last=Sharda | date=3 July 2018 | newspaper=The Times of India | access-date=7 September 2020 }}</ref> | ||
| founder = [[N. S. Hardikar|Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar]] | | founder = [[N. S. Hardikar|Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar]] | ||
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In 1931, the [[Congress Working Committee]] decided to rename the Hindustani Seva Dal as the Congress Seva Dal, making it the central volunteer organisation of the Congress. Every province was to have a general officer commanding the provincial Seva Dal. The organisation also focused specifically on three categories of people: children, adolescents and adults. All Seva Dal members were required to take an oath, which, among other things, required them to stay aloof from political activity in the Congress.<ref name="Pandey2002">{{cite book|last=Pandey|first=Gyanendra|title=The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940|year=2002|publisher=Anthem Press|location=London|pages=36}}</ref> RSS founder [[Keshav Baliram Hedgewar|Dr. K.B. Hedgewar]] was also associated with the Congress Seva Dal's predecessor - Hindustani Seva Dal<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theprint.in/india/rss-founder-hedgewar-was-with-congress-and-other-facts-you-didnt-know/387491/|title=RSS founder Hedgewar was with Congress, and other facts you didn’t know|date=25 March 2020}}</ref> | In 1931, the [[Congress Working Committee]] decided to rename the Hindustani Seva Dal as the Congress Seva Dal, making it the central volunteer organisation of the Congress. Every province was to have a general officer commanding the provincial Seva Dal. The organisation also focused specifically on three categories of people: children, adolescents and adults. All Seva Dal members were required to take an oath, which, among other things, required them to stay aloof from political activity in the Congress.<ref name="Pandey2002">{{cite book|last=Pandey|first=Gyanendra|title=The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940|year=2002|publisher=Anthem Press|location=London|pages=36}}</ref> RSS founder [[Keshav Baliram Hedgewar|Dr. K.B. Hedgewar]] was also associated with the Congress Seva Dal's predecessor - Hindustani Seva Dal<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theprint.in/india/rss-founder-hedgewar-was-with-congress-and-other-facts-you-didnt-know/387491/|title=RSS founder Hedgewar was with Congress, and other facts you didn’t know|date=25 March 2020}}</ref> | ||
The task of imparting training and organising volunteers was given to the Dal in 1938, which was then headquartered in the Karnatak district of the [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay presidency]]. Under Hardikar, an | The task of imparting training and organising volunteers was given to the Dal in 1938, which was then headquartered in the Karnatak district of the [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay presidency]]. Under Hardikar, an academy for physical training was established and training camps established at several places across India. During the [[Civil Disobedience Movement]], the Seva Dal played an stellar role in enrolling new members in the Congress, organising activities like picketing and in arming the party with an organised but peaceful militia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian National Congress - Constructive Programmes & The Congress|url=http://www.aicc.org.in/new/constructive-programmes.php|access-date=31 October 2012}}</ref> The significance of the Dal in the Civil Disobedience Movement can be gauged from the fact that in 1934, when the Movement came to an end and the colonial authorities lifted the ban on the Congress and its organisations, they continued to proscribe the Dal.<ref name="Pandey2002" /> | ||
== Past Presidents | == Past Presidents | ||