BJP has become 'Congressised': RSS

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. The RSS today charged that the BJP had become ``Congressised'' and that it was the long Congress rule that had corrupted the entire system and made it rotten. The RSS had always wanted the BJP not to imitate the Congress style, the RSS sarsanghchalak, Mr. K.S. Sudershan, today said to the press on the concluding day of the national council session being held here.

Indirectly, there was more than a hint of disappointment that a scandal of such proportions and a matter of national shame had come to pass when the BJP was heading the government.

Resolution on Kashmir

The council adopted three resolutions today (in addition to the three adopted yesterday). In a resolution on Kashmir, the RSS favoured a free hand for the security forces to allow them to attack and destroy the training forces of terrorists in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir. The resolution favoured an aggressive policy that would go to any length to kill the root of the problem - training of insurgents by Pakistan.

The RSS, which has openly favoured the trifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir, again referred approvingly to the ``demand for a union territory status for Ladakh'' and pointed out that the agitation for a ``separate state of Jammu'' was getting stronger each day.

The resolution attacked what it described as the ``rabidly communal mindset of a large section of Kashmiri Muslims'' and said it was because of this that Kashmiri Hindus uprooted from their homes had been unable to return. The RSS general secretary has been asked to set up a committee to examine this problem and make its recommendations to the working committee of the RSS within two months.

A resolution on cow protection appealed to Parliament to fulfill the directive principles of the Constitution by banning cow slaughter and give protection to the animal considered holy by Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs.

On the recent communal disturbances following rumours about the burning of the Koran, the RSS had no problems directly blaming ``Muslim mobs'' for ``engineering'' the riots. The resolution on communal disturbances reads like the report of an investigation officer: ``The bullet that killed the local additional district magistrate (in Kanpur) flew from the AK-47 rifle that was fired from within the precincts of a masjid.'' It also alleged ``a bomb attack on a temple'' and the ``dishonouring and humiliation of women''.

The resolution also noted the killing of RSS workers in West Bengal, Siwan in Bihar and Noida in Uttar Pradesh. The RSS has asked the Government ``to put down with an iron hand all such violent and anti-national machinations of extremist Muslim groups''.

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