Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) will burn copies of the Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors’ “dangerous” report across the country soon. RSS leader Indresh Kumar told media persons here that the RSS would soon decide a date to burn the copies of the report submitted by the three interlocutors to the central government.
“The interlocutors’ report is extremely dangerous for the unity and integrity of the country. It will lead to division of the country,” he alleged, terming the report as being against Kashmir’s integration with India.
The report has recommended the setting up of a constitutional committee to review all central laws extended to the state and making permanent Article 370 of the constitution that grants the state a special status.
Indresh Kumar said the interlocutors had taken a line which will allow a third agency to mediate on the Kashmir issue which India will not tolerate.
He said that Pakistan had no right to the areas of Kashmir it currently occupies.
The report, “A New Compact with the People of Jammu and Kashmir”, prepared by the three interlocutors – senior journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, academician Radha Kumar and former information commissioner M.M. Ansari – was made public early this month.
Earlier BJP had also taken a  strong objection to this Report. Party Leader Sushma Swaraj said it is an attempt to wipe off the efforts of leaders like Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.
Swaraj also criticised the interlocutors for suggesting changing the word about Article 370 of Constitution from ‘temporary’ to ‘Special’ and said suggestion to include it with Article 371, “is an attempt to create a divide as due to Article 370 Jammu and Kashmir could not gel into India.”
Addressing the dharna, RSS leader Ram Madhav said the report is against the spirit of non-negotiable integration of Jammu and Kashmir with India in 1947.
“Mirpur, Muzaffrabad and Gilgit is ours. This report has included only sentiments of leaders of Kashmir Valley. Any report should have the sentiments in it, but it should not be against the Constitution,” Madhav said.
He alleged the interlocutors report is an attempt to include the voices of those who do not have respect for the Constitution.
They have failed to put versions of the refugees, the Kashmiri Pandits, who have been forcefully evicted from their land, he said.
Ramesh Raina, General Secretary of All India Kashmir Samaj, said Kashmiri Pandits are indigenous to the state. “But the report does not say how the sufferings and victimisation of Pandits can be stopped,” he said.
He said, “Central to the problem of Jammu and Kashmir is the issue of Kashmiri Pandits, their non-recognition and their non-assimilation into the mainstream.”
Raina also said that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had in its report said that atrocities against Kashmiri Pandits were akin to genocide.
Terming the interlocutors’ report as one that divides the country, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) member Surendra Jain said that a whopping Rs. 96.5 crore was wasted by the three-member team during their visit to 22 villages.