Reviving ancient Hindu traditions of Kashmir, building Sangh Parivar-run schools called Ekal Vidyalaya in Muslim-dominated areas, setting up institutes of advanced studies and multiple think tanks, making Kashmir-centric movies – this is how the RSS is working to shape a narrative to make Kashmir “election ready”.
The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had ordered the Election Commission of India to conduct elections to the Jammu and Kashmir assembly before September 30, 2024. Whenever notified, it will be the first election since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019.
According to senior RSS functionaries, a series of events, launch of literature, books and papers, movies have been planned to set a narrative and initiate a discussion around the Hindus and the Hindu tradition of Kashmir before the polls.
The RSS-inspired institute – Abhinavagupta Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) – will hold a special ceremony to honour Romanian-born research scholar Mark Dyczkowski and Sanskrit scholar Navjivan Rastogi for their work on Kashmir Shaivism and tantric traditions, commonly known as Rajanaka tradition.
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