RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat To Address Gen Z, Gen Alpha At IIMUN’s 15th Anniversary Event In Mumbai On August 6
Mumbai: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will sit down with a room full of Gen Z and Gen Alpha students on August 6, at a session held at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai.
The event marks 15 years of IIMUN India’s International Movement to Unite Nations and doubles as the opening ceremony for its Annual Championship Conference. More than 2,000 high schoolers, aged 15 to 19 and pulled from over 100 cities across the country, are expected to show up, making it one of the bigger youth gatherings of its kind.
IIMUN founder Rishabh Shah framed the invite as less about the RSS chief lecturing young people and more about giving them a seat at the table. “Leadership is not only about guiding the next generation, but also listening to it. At this critical juncture in India’s journey, we need this dialogue more than ever before. I am grateful to Mohan Bhagwat ji for accepting our invite to address this gathering at this critical juncture,” he said.
Bhagwat’s talk will formally kick off the championship conference, where students spend the following days debating local, national, and international issues. This year’s theme: “The Role of Youth in Uniting the World, the Indian Way.”
The timing lines up with things Bhagwat has been saying publicly about this generation. In recent remarks, he’s described Gen Z as fundamentally well-meaning and adaptable, but quick to react without pausing to think things through. He’s also flagged how easily young people gravitate toward causes that feel “visibly authentic” to them, and has been pushing a broader point about family life that the “era of obedience” is over, and parents need to build consensus through actual conversation rather than issuing instructions. He’s raised concerns about screen addiction too, arguing parents should cut their own social media use rather than wait for laws to fix the problem.
IIMUN itself runs 108 conferences a year, alongside thousands of smaller civic projects, all organized by young people aged 15 to 24 for students between 11 and 19. Rishabh Shah founded the group in 2011 as a platform to get young people engaged with public life and the idea of Bharat; over the years, plenty of its former organizers have gone on to become elected officials, civil servants, lawyers, and business leaders. Its advisory board is a mixed bag Ajay Piramal, Deepak Parekh, Nadir Godrej, Shashi Tharoor, Justice DY Chandrachud, Karan Johar, former service chiefs, and PT Usha are all on it.
Fifteen years in, IIMUN says its programs now stretch across 275 cities in India and 40 countries, and that it’s worked with over 1.5 lakh schools and colleges, reaching more than 7.5 crore young people.