New Delhi, July 12: Differing with the Sangh Parivar, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani has said that partitioning Jammu or trifurcating the state will strengthen Pakistan's case on Kashmir and this has been conveyed to the RSS. "....If we think in term of partitioning Jammu or trifurcating the state (Jammu and Kashmir), we will psychologically be conceding that we do not have any claim on the Kashmir Valley.

"So it would, wittingly or unwittingly, strengthen Pakistan's case and therefore we are opposed to it. The Jan Sangh was opposed to it and the BJP has been consistently opposed to it," he said in an interview to 'India Today' magazine.

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He said the NDA government has succeeded by and large in framing a clear cut internal security policy by dealing with insurgency on the ground in J&K and identifying ISI top modules all over the country.
Asked whether elections in the state could be held under governor's rule, he said there has been a willingness indicated by the state leadership--Farooq Abdullah and omar Abdullah.

"So it will be they who would have to recommend it."

Asked whether that would make the elections more credible he said "I think so. It will help the credibility of the whole poll process."
Bureau Report