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| 'RSS leader Arun Kumar felt embarrassed during his Jammu visit' | | Startling revelation | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 27: None in Jammu had ever expected that RSS leader Arun Kumar's intervention in the affairs of Jammu & Kashmir would evoke a very sharp reaction from those in Jammu who were considered close to RSS and BJP, but it happened during the meetings he held with some important sections of civil society, including 10-odd members of media fraternity. He is former Pranatiya Prachark and takes keen interest in the J&K affairs. According to sources close to him, he considers himself as an expert in Kashmir affairs, issues diktats to local BJP leadership from time to time, influences party decisions as far as appointment of persons to various positions in the government is concerned and allegedly doesn't have good relations with Jammu & Kashmir Pranatiya Prachark Ramesh Pappa.
Arun Kumar visited Jammu only a few days ago in the wake of the raging controversy over ban on cow slaughter and beef eating and serious developments which unfolded in Kashmir following the September 9 direction of the High Court in Public Interest Litigation to the concerned authorities that ban on cow slaughter and beef eating in the state must be strictly enforced so that the sanctity of the relevant laws was maintained and rule of law established in the state.
As reported yesterday, Arun Kumar held two meetings with some professors, lawyers and journalists to enlist their support to the under-attack BJP and solicit their views on how to diffuse the potentially dangerous situation in the state and resolve the controversy over beef eating. He, as per at least three witnesses, "asked the professors, lawyers and media persons to give the BJP some more time and reassured them that all the issues, including the issue of AIIMS, they raised during the meetings would be addressed by the BJP, but none in the meeting, not even those considered RSS and BJP men, bought his arguments".
"The way the important civil society members responded put him on the mat. He found himself in a piquant situation. He didn't respond to any query. He wanted them to suggest some names who write for newspapers or who would write for BJP and for the coalition government, but with no result. Instead, some of the civil society members and media persons candidly told him on his face that there was nothing that they could highlight to defend BJP or the coalition government. This is not our government and we cannot and will not defend it. Some even questioned the very credentials of RSS and told him that it had lost its credibility and that it was no different from BJP. It is not the RSS we know; it's a different kind of RSS. Arun Kumar must not have faced such a hostile gathering of people in his life and he perhaps had never cut a sorry figure like he did in Jammu in the two meetings he held with civil society members, mostly from non-RSS background," sources close to Arun Kumar revealed.
One may or may not believe it, but it is a fact that one very senior RSS leader in Jammu & Kashmir, who has been associated with the organisation for more than six decades, told this correspondent on the condition of anonymity that "Arun Kumar should not have visited Jammu at this point in time when tempers were running high and the people of Jammu region were seething with anger because of the negative attitude of BJP towards them". "He should not have called meetings. He himself invited public ire by calling meetings of civil society members, who did plain-speaking and told him what was needed to be told to him to give him a befitting response," this senior RSS leader further revealed, and added that "Arun would remember his Jammu visit for a long, long time" and that "it is likely that he may avoid Jammu in the future". Significantly, this RSS leader, like another RSS veteran, told this correspondent that "they were quite happy with the development", saying "what. |
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