NC hits out at RSS over march in Jammu

Opposition National Conference (NC) today came out strongly against RSS over a march organised by the outfit here even as it charged that the Sangh Parivar was "playing with fire in Jammu and Kashmir".
A large number of RSS activists today took part in a 'Vijay Dashmi' procession here to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the outfit's foundation.
Claiming that the procession was an attempt to "create communal polarisation" in the state, NC said these activities have the potential to destroy the traditional harmony in J-K.
Slamming the march, NC said "it was an aggressive and arrogant display".
NC's provincial President Devender Singh Rana further said in a statement here that the march "unfolds nefarious RSS game plan which BJP cannot justify as a routine annual Dussehra activity".

"This is a bid to create communal polarisation," Rana said as he urged the people of Jammu to counter the "communal politics" of RSS and BJP. He alleged that the march today suggests "a well-thought out strategy and design to vitiate the atmosphere and create wedge in the society on the basis of caste, creed and religion".

He said the people of Jammu understand the "machinations of the Sangh Parivar" and pointed to three successive shutdowns against "failed policies" of the coalition government in the past three months.
Rana alleged that it was "a fit of desperation" which was behind "unusual activities like public display of lathis and arms by RSS volunteers".

Invoking the "legacy bequeathed by the founding fathers of the nation", he claimed it was at "peril".
Accusing the BJP-PDP coalition of encouraging the activities of RSS in the state, Rana charged that "by trying to bring the people of different segments of the society in an eyeball-to-eyeball situation, the Sangh Parivar is playing with fire in J-K".