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| RSS dismisses interlocutors' report as dangerous, unsettling | | Right Approach | | NEHA
JAMMU, June 10: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which earlier had urged the Union Government to "throw the interlocutors' report into the dustbin", has yet again dismissed the same as divisive, dangerous and unsettling. Interlocutors Dilip Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari submitted their 177-page report to the Union Home Minister on October 12 last and it was made public by the Union Home Ministry on May 24 for public scrutiny. Making public the controversial report, the Union Home Ministry clearly said that the Government of India had not taken any view on the report and that it would welcome a debate on the recommendations and findings of the interlocutors. Immediately thereafter, the RSS had denounced the interlocutors' report and asked the Government of India to throw it into the dustbin.
On Saturday, the RSS explained away why did it reject the report and ask the authorities in New Delhi to treat it with the contempt it deserved. It was none other than Seh Sampark Parmukh (SSP) Ram Madhav who explained the RSS's stand on the report and the interlocutors' recommendations. He said the RSS had rejected the report for six main reasons. One, it contains recommendations which are fundamentally based on the Nehruvian model. The RSS has never appreciated the way Jawaharlal Nehru handled Jammu & Kashmir. In fact, the RSS believes that the nation has been paying through its nose since 1947 for the follies the then Indian Prime Minister Committed in Jammu & Kashmir to placate National Conference leader and protagonist of greater autonomy Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and teach Maharaja Hari Singh a lesson. Nehru hated Hari Singh from the core of his heart because the latter had got him arrested.
Two, the interlocutors' recommendations, if accepted and given an effect to, would pave the way for the state's separation from India, as the same appear somewhat consistent with what the separatists in Kashmir had been suggesting from time to time. Implementation of the interlocutors' recommendations, according to Ram Madhav, will lead to "grater separation".
Three, the interlocutors' suggestion that Article 370 be made a permanent feature of the Indian Constitution negates the very stand of the RSS and the "patriotic people", who have been demanding its abrogation right since the day it was incorporated in the Indian Constitution at the behest of Nehru and Sheikh. Recommendations for making Article 370 are utterly "unacceptable" to it and the "patriotic people of the country" was the upshot of the argument of the SPP.
Four, it was outrageous that the interlocutors termed in their report Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir (POJK) as Pakistan-administered-Jammu & Kashmir (PAJK). The use of such nomenclature "is also not acceptable to nationalist forces in the country as there is parliamentary resolution of (February) 1994" on these occupied territories. The Parliamentary resolution clearly says that POJK is legitimately Indian, that the only issue that still remains unresolved between India and Pakistan is the political future of POJK and Gilgit-Baltistan and that India will take back those territories from Pakistan using all available means.
Five, the interlocutors' recommendation that all the central laws and Articles, which were extended to Jammu & Kashmir after 1952, be reviewed runs counter to what the Indian Constitution stands for. The Indian Constitution stands for unity and integrity of the country, democracy, secularism and equality and bars the Government of India from according a differential and preferential treatment to any community or any region on the basis of religion.
Six, the interlocutors' recommendation that there should be gradual reduction in the number of non-State Subject IAS, IPS, IFS and other allied central services also runs counter to the administrative system and the framers of the constitution handed down to the nation. By putting forth such a recommendation, the interlocutors have only walked into the separatists' trap, the RSS spokesperson virtually said.
No sane person or no patriotic Indian would disagree with Ram Madhav. All of his objections are valid. It is indeed appreciable that the RSS has taken a clear-cut stand on the interlocutors' report and demanded its outright repudiation.
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