Jammu, Aug 28: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh today said it would back only those candidates in the coming assembly elections which support separate statehood for Jammu and Union Territory status for Ladakh.
This is in keeping with the RSS resolution adopted in Kurukshetra on June 30 which included creating separate state of Jammu, conferring UT status to Ladakh and holding free and fair polls, RSS spokesman M G Vadiya told reporters here.
Since RSS does not contest elections directly, he said its cadres had helped in formation of Jammu State Morcha (JSM) to work for separate statehood for Jammu.
"Those who will not support this demand of separate state for Jammu will not be supported by us", he said in reply to a question on RSS' political relation with BJP.


On whether the RSS move would harm the BJP in the forthcoming polls, Vadiya said both the organisations are different, adding there is freedom to all party units in the country to take decisions on issues pertaining to their areas subject that such decisions are in the interest of national unity.

He said if elections could be held when several lakh people were displaced in Jammu and Kashmir, what was the purpose of postponing polls in Gujarat where only a few thousand people got displaced.

Bureau Report