New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayam- sewak Sangh (RSS) is all set to embark on its Mission Kashmir. Analysing the manner in which terror activities have risen on the borders and inside Jammu and Kashmir, the RSS top brass has asked the Centre to adopt a more ‘aggressive’ policy towards terror. RSS leaders also expressed discomfort at the BJP-PDP alliance and complained that the PDP did not seem interested in putting a cap on rising extremism in the valley. RSS also announced its plan of holding at least 100 camps in the valley in order to expose the designs of Pakistan and ISI and to stop violence.
This would be a low key affair handled by RSS cadres only in order to prevent any politicisation of the campaign. All this and the recent Indo-Pak stand-off over talks figured in the morning session of the Sangh Parivar’s co-ordination meeting on day two. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar presented the govt’s viewpoint in the session. The 100-odd delegates who are part of the conclave also stressed on better rehabilitation of border residents in the wake of the current spate of escalation.
The Sangh is also planning to organise camps in villages affected by Left Wing Extremism to prevent further recruitment of youth. Home Minister Rajnath Singh briefed that the govt was focusing on development in Naxal-affected areas to which the RSS functionaries said these activities should involve locals as much as possible. BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav explained details of the initiatives undertaken by the BJP-PDP govt in Jammu and Kashmir. He claimed that the govt had initiated several development programmes in the valley and violence had come down substantially.
Ram Madhav, who was the architect of the alliance with PDP, said the party had clarified to the PDP that the BJP’s stand on the controversial Article 370 was a matter of ideological conviction and not a political slogan. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar briefed the session about the situation at the J&K borders and the latest developments with China. Smriti told to work on nationalist history Union HRD minister Smriti Irani was asked by the RSS big-wigs that the govt should work towards imparting a more ‘nationalistic’ history and value based education for the youth.
‘We should ensure a curriculum which reflects Indian culture, values and Indianness’, she was told. A charter of demands prepared by Vidya Bharati, Shiksha Bachao Andolan and other Sangh affiliates was also presented. Among other demands, the charter mentions the formation of Education Commission on the lines of the Election Commission to make education policy independent.
