My 15-month stint has given me confidence: Modi

His 15-month stint in government had given him confidence that the government could now deliver, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the coordination meet as he joined the the three-day exercise on its concluding day on Friday.

The PM also said the emphasis of his government was to take the benefits of development to the last person in the social ladder.

Concluding the valedictory session, Sangh patriarch Mohan Bhagwat underlined the significance of frequent exchanges and interaction between the RSS and the government. "It is important to keep meeting and this three-day exercise has been very fruitful in that sense," said Bhagwat.

While the RSS maintained the Modi dispensation was on the right track, it desisted from giving it full marks. "The RSS is not displeased with the government. The direction is right and achievements have been significant though one can never have 100 per cent satisfaction on all issues. It has been only 14 months, much more has to be done yet," said RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosbale.

Going by the tenor of RSS thinking, the meet seems to have decided the broad contours of many a realm of Indian body-politic, including foreign affairs, economy and education. Meanwhile, the RSS parried a Mail Today query over the Patel reservation stir in Gujarat. Hosabale did not comment on the issue. While Hosbale called the comity of India's neighbours a family in the context of the internal and external security scenario of India, he referred to Bangladesh and Pakistan as brothers, having been carved out of erstwhile India. However, he went to interpret Indo-Pak tensions while dubbing India as the Pandavas and Pakistan as Kauravas.

On economy, Hosbale said the meet brainstormed upon models that could strike a balance between development and environment. Villages would be provided with quality education, medicare and livelihood options, he said. "Education needs to be geographically accessible, economically affordable and socially inclusive. We want to achieve 100 per cent literacy in the coming four to five years," he said.

While RSS distanced itself from VHP's Praveen Togadia's controversial comments on the contentious issue of religious census, Hosbale said the matter was being studied and a detailed report would be tabled at its upcoming national executive meet in Ranchi. "Praveen Togadia did not speak on behalf of VHP," he said.