Disruptive, communal politics of RSS must be defeated: Tarigami

Srinagar, Sep 20: Disapproving the statement of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat attacking the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, senior leader of the Communist Party of India (M) Mohammad Yousuf Targami on Thursday said communal politics of the RSS must be defeated.

The RSS has once again attacked the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir by calling for the scrapping of Article 35-A and Article 370 in a public programme, Mr Targami said in a statement here.

He said since RSS is the ideological mentor of BJP, a statement like this confirms the apprehension that the cat may be finally out of bag and that BJP governent may well be on its way to scrap Article 35-A for polarisation and its petty electoral gains.

However, he said people of Jammu and Kashmir have always rejected such divisive designs of communal forces.

Mr Bhagwat seems to be ignorant of the historical realities and the basis of relationship of Jammu and Kashmir with the Union, he added.

Article 370 and 35A are constitutional obligations, without which the instrument of accession itself is rendered meaningless. To deny this fact, as the RSS and its affiliates punctually do, is to undermine the union itself, he alleged.