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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 11: Prof Hari Om's essay "The RSS is seriously mistaken about Pakistan's Jammu & Kashmir policy" (April 9) had not only divided the RSS ideologues but also made them fight against each other.
In his latest political essay, Prof Hari Om had, among other things, said that "the RSS seems to be blissfully ignorant about what the various political parties of Pakistan said in their respective election manifestos about their stand on Jammu & Kashmir", that "the political parties in Pakistan around the 2013 elections had turned so hostile towards India that they had included Jammu & Kashmir in their respective election manifestos very prominently" and that "the political and religio-political parties of Pakistan had made the so-called Kashmir issue the cornerstone of their foreign policy vis-à-vis India".
He had written the essay to debunk the claim of RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha and appreciate the stand of Major General (Retd) GD Bakshi on Pakistan and its hostile attitude towards India as well as Kashmir.
"On 8 April, RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha, who represents the RSS and defends BJP's policy towards Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir on a daily basis in TV debates debunked the assertion of Major General (Retd) G D Bakshi that "there is no change in the Pakistan's policy towards India as far as Jammu & Kashmir is concerned" and that "it would be suicidal for the bleeding India to pin faith in unscrupulous and rogue Islamabad. Rakesh Sinha emphasised and reemphasised that "there is a sea change in the Pakistan's attitude towards Jammu & Kashmir" and to make his point he said that "the Pakistan's political parties didn't make Jammu & Kashmir an election plank in the 2013 Pakistan National assembly elections" ("Sab Se Bada Sawal", News 24, April 8, 2016)", Prof Hari Om had written.
"Rakesh Sinha, it seems, is blissfully ignorant about what the various political parties of Pakistan said in their respective election manifestos about their stand on Jammu & Kashmir. Had he or any other RSS ideologue cared to monitor the 2013 general elections in Pakistan, they would not have said what Rakesh Sinha Sinha said to counter Major General (Retd) G D Bakshi," Prof Hari Om had also written.
Commenting on the Prof Hari Om's critique on Rakesh Singh, another RSS ideologue, Ratan Sharda, who also participates in TV debates and defends the RSS and the BJP, said that the views of Rakesh Sinha were not the views of the RSS. In fact, he dissociated the RSS from what Rakesh Sinha had said.
"A good article. But, based on wrong premises. For more nuanced views of RSS about J&K, its stand on Gilgit-Baltistan, one needs to go to Jammu Kashmir Study Centre's site jammukashmirnow. org . It is closest to RSS view. Do not make mistake of Sinha's views as RSS views," Ratan Sharda wrote the same day.
The comment of Ratan Sharda didn't go well with Rakesh Sinha. He fielded his team member, Purvi, to contest Ratan Sharda. She not only contested his appreciation of Prof Hari Om's critique on Rakesh Sinha but also accused him of feeling jealous of Sinha.
"I'm shocked to see the comments of Ratan Sharda. How can you praise this article which is nothing but a foolish attempt to malign the image of Rakesh Sinha. I have been hearing him in debates. He never expresses anything which RSS doesn't endorse. Here also he dint even for once praised Pak political parties on their stand on J&K. How can Ratan Sharda, who claims to be a RSS thinker, be so jealous of an eminent intellectual like Rakesh Sinha.? Ratan Sharda your comments have maligned your image only. Wish you had heard Rakesh Sinha on news 24 before endorsing this malicious propaganda against Rakesh sinha. I wish Rakesh Sinha sue the author and the magazine. But I have started believing that certain people in RSS too also spread negative and false rumours about their fellow members reasons best known to them," Purvi wrote.
What does this show? It shows that the RSS ideologues are a divided lot and that they are so intolerant that can't digest each other. It also shows that the RSS ideologues do not mind washing dirty linen in public. It appears a struggle is going on within the RSS among its ideologues to establish superiority over each other. That's the reason no one takes the RSS seriously.
Meanwhile, Prof Hari Om has stuck to his stand and dared Rakesh Sinha to sue him in the court.
"I stand for what I wrote in the article. Rakesh Sinha has been unsuccessfully defending PM Modi's Pakistan and Kashmir policy and speaking a language that does make one feel and conclude that he has gone extraordinarily soft on Pakistan. Rakesh Sinha has gone so liberal that he vouches for separate treatment for 'Kashmir, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh', virtually saying the people of these states are a race apart (News 24, February 22, 2016). The point is that interventions of Rakesh Sinha and many a BJP spokesperson in TV debates and their formulations on J&K, Pakistan, Indo-Pak relations and PM Modi's foreign policy vis-à-vis Pakistan have alarmed all the nationalists in J&K and elsewhere in the country," he has written in response to what Rakesh Sinha's team member said.
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