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| RSS joins CU row | | Bhagwat on revamp mission in Jammu, calls for end to Art 370 | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 21: In his second visit to Jammu in less than two months, the Chief of Rashtriya Sweyam Sewak Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat strongly opposed any move to repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and called for abrogation of Article 370 –the Article of Constitution of India that accords so called special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference here today, the RSS chief also lent his support to the ongoing agitation for establishment of Central University in Jammu. "If need be the ongoing agitation over the central university would be further intensified to achieve its aim". The RSS chief is in Jammu on three-day visit and on his agenda is primarily revamp of his organisation here.
RSS Chief said that if ministers in the state government have made a commitment to the people of Jammu region that central university would come up in Jammu then there should be no further delay and the same should be set up in Jammu.
Meanwhile, Bhagwat clarified that his organisation had no role in the expulsion of veteran politician Jaswant Singh from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “RSS has no role in it whatsoever,” Bhagwat said. “It’s purely BJP’s internal affair,” he said.
Many political analysts cite Jaswant Singh’s lack of closeness to the RSS as one of the reasons for his expulsion from the BJP Wednesday. The RSS is the ideological parent of the BJP, the country’s main opposition party.
Bhagwat criticized Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Sharm-el-Sheikh joint statement with Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, especially with reference to Balochistan.
“Strategically, India has gone on the backfoot,” Bhagwat said, echoing the apprehensions that the BJP leadership had voiced in parliament. The BJP feels India has capitulated to Pakistan by allowing Balochistan to be mentioned in the joint statement. Islamabad accuses India of fomenting insurgency in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.
The RSS chief claimed his organisation could keep India united and “preserve the forces of moderation in the country”.
He is here to review the functioning of the state unit of the RSS. This is the first time he is on an official visit after being named the chief of the RSS earlier this year.
Bhagwat, RSS sources said, will be conducting a post-mortem of the organisational activities in Kashmir, where it is in a crisis as some members indulged in power politics.
“A thorough review of the RSS unit of Jammu and Kashmir is on the anvil. He will discuss ways to improve its image and make the Sangh attractive to the youth,” an RSS functionary said.
He admitted that the RSS was facing various problems and youngsters were not finding the organisation attractive.
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