A growing section within the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), including some of its affiliates such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), believes that the BJP's power sharing experiment with the Mehbooba Mufti-led People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the Valley has gone awry.

While this line of thought has persisted for some time, it has become prominent in the wake of the Amarnath Yatra attack on Tuesday. Despite the BJP being in power as a junior alliance partner of the PDP, the VHP on Tuesday pinned the blame for the attack on the "soft" attitude of the state government and called for its immediate sacking. The saffron outfit demanded imposition of President's Rule in Jammu and Kashmir.

VHP international joint general secretary Surendra Jain told Mail Today that he personally met Mehbooba and conveyed his concerns about the safety of the devotees, something, he claimed, was not paid heed.

"This attack is the result of the soft attitude of the BJP-PDP government. Our experiment to go with the PDP has failed. There is a need to rethink this strategy. Not much can be done in the state given the current tumult. The state government should be sacked immediately and the state be put under President's Rule. Indian army must take charge," Jain said.

Some within RSS too echoed similar sentiments. "The failure of the state government is clear. The attack reflects gross intelligence failure," an RSS functionary told Mail Today.

Many in the RSS believe the state government has not been paying attention to the aspirations of the rightwing's core support base - not mush movement has been achieved with regard to Kashmiri Pandits and their issue of rehabilitation or on the issueof West Pakistani refugees in the state. This, they believe, could lead to an eventual erosion of this base and prove counterproductive for the RSS as well as the BJP in the long run.

Jain also said his request to the state government for handing over the security of the entire yatra route to the Indian army was not heeded.

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