Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), MLC, Firdous Tak on Friday kicked up a storm by labelling Village Defence Committee (VDC) members as 'Godse brigade' while pressuring the Governor's administration to review their decision of arming them with the State weapons.
"We don't want Godse Brigade, RSS brigade here in Kishtwar. We also don't want certificates from them, whether we are true nationalists or not", Tak shouted while leading a protest demonstration of party workers in Kishtwar town on Friday.
Targeting the district authorities, former PDP MLC in his provocative speech said, "we are not protesting against any particular community. We are asking when district police had to replace 467 VDC members, who had attained the age of 60 years, why they informed the local RSS leaders to provide them a list of 467 members". Tak claimed, "these VDC members are not representing members of the Hindu community. They are members of the RSS cadre".
Posing few more 'uncomforting' questions, Tak claimed, "when Rashtriya Rifles, CRPF and the state police is already deployed in sensitive areas of the hilly district why VDC members were provided with the state weapons". "I want to ask, whether they are much better than our own jawans. Whether they are good strategists and can plan counter strategy better than the army /state police personnel".
Tak, a young turk in the PDP, is spearheading series of protests, against the decision of the district authorities to revamp defunct Village Defence Committees.
In the last one year, terrorists have started carving out safe hideouts and carried out targeted killings of senior BJP/RSS functionaries without any trace. The district police authorities, till date have failed to arrest the killers behind these attacks.