Dehradun: The corridors of the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha echoed with applause on Tuesday as the hill state scripted history during its silver jubilee special session.

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami rose to deliver a speech that formally recognised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s hundred years of service to the nation, making the Assembly the country’s first constitutional body to do so on record.

Standing beneath the portrait of Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who carved Uttarakhand out of Uttar Pradesh exactly twenty-five years ago, CM Dhami said, “Through its hundred years of asceticism, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has unleashed a divine stream of cultural renaissance, social harmony, self-respect, and patriotic service in India.”

“It has ignited the eternal flame of nati

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