Take stern action against those advocating separatism: Bhagwat

Jammu: The society will not tolerate any compromise with the sovereignty, unity and integrity of the country, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday and demanded stern action against those advocating separatism.
"The society will not tolerate any compromise with the sovereignty, unity and integrity of the country. It is need of the hour to take stern action as per law against those who advocate separatism and work at the behest of their masters sitting across the border,” Bhagwat told Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) workers here.
Bhagwat said people of Jammu and Kashmir have faced hardship to safeguard the integrity of the country. "You have faced those hardships for the country, the situation has to be resolved. If the situation has not been resolved for so long, then it can have two reasons. Either we have no courage to resolve the situation or there is some shortfall in our efforts to resolve the problem," he said. The RSS chief said, in a democracy, society is the most powerful entity which has the power to elect its representatives. "Whatever the society wants the government has to work that way. This is the rule in democracy," he said, adding in India the rule of the law is supreme and everyone has to follow it.
"It is a huge country with so many states but it is still one country. The government will work for the emotional unity of the country which was the basis on which Constitution was written. The sovereignty, unity and integrity of the nation are paramount,” he said.
Bhagwat said though the country adopted a federal form of government only a few decades ago, it has been one nation for ages. "In this country we don’t needs laws for patriotism, we have accepted federal structure of governance, but from time immemorial we are one country”, he said.
Bhagwat said the need of the hour was to follow the laws and strengthen the emotional unity of the country and not divide it.
"We means the people of this country, irrespective of what religion they follow and what God they worship and what God they don’t. It is the people of the country and the laws need to be followed to strengthen the country so separatism cannot rear its head," he said.