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<b>Ramar Sethu issue: RSS directs its organisations to work together</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->agitation, when the Sangh seemed to have lost the plot, the RSS, it seems, is wary of the Ramar Sethu agitation going the Ayodhya way. It does not want it to be hijacked by the BJP, turned into a political agitation, and then discarded when the party is in power due to “political compulsions,” with consequent loss of face for the RSS and its other organisations such as the VHP.

<b>Addressing the press here on Wednesday, VHP leader Ashok Singhal confirmed that aims of the VHP and BJP were identical. Both were opposed to the destruction of the under-sea structure described as Ramar Sethu, but both were in favour of the Sethusamudram project. They both preferred a different alignment that would bring no harm to the Ramar Sethu.

“We are all in it together,” Mr. Singhal said. He disclosed that at an RSS meeting recently, where representatives of the BJP and the VHP were present, the direction was that all wings of the RSS should work in a coordinated manner to take the agitation forward.</b>

RSS has ‘larger’ goal
A senior BJP leader explained: the RSS view and its goal is larger than the BJP’s as it wants to raise Hindu consciousness.

The BJP’s aim often gets restricted to electoral victories. The RSS does not want the Ramar Sethu issue to become a victim of any “compulsions of coalition politics” as the Ayodhya issue did

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<b>The so-called differences between the BJP and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on the Ramar Sethu issue are only related to personal jealousies, not to the issue that has the full support of the RSS and all its wings.</b>
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