The last meeting, that took place about a week ago, is considered significant as the two exchanged views on the action to be initiated in the event of Pakistan's refusal to withdraw.

The week-long meeting of the Pratinidhi Sabha is likely to come out with a formal call to the Government to cross the LoC and retrieve the occupied territory. The Parivar cannot accept the proposition that its Government failed to protect Kashmir while it had allalong been blaming the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty for the Jammu and Kashmir fiasco.

Significantly, the Parivar has given the go-ahead to a plan to mobilise public opinion in favour of the Vajpayee Government in a country-wide campaign beginning August.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to constitute 5,000 committees to tour every village and visit the homes of martyrs and those in the armed forces. The committee members, comprising VHP volunteers, will be required to pay homage by conducting an aarti before the martyrs' photographs and provide funds. The plan also envisages that streets, chowks and even villages be named after martyrs.

The Sangh Parivar is confident that all this will have an electrifying effect on people across the country, as seen when the VHP launched its Ram temple agitation and visited every village to collect a brick and a rupee. All those who gave the VHP a brick and a rupee were seen to have given their votes to the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Some of the RSS' frontalorganisations such as the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, the VHP and a few leaders have openly demanded that the LoC be crossed to settle the Kashmir dispute once and for all. The Parivar's Hindi weekly, Panchajanya, has been pressing for a hard line on the issue for long.

But of late, BJP leaders have started mounting pressure on the Vajpayee Government. Apart from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, BJP general secretary Govindacharya too has gone on record in this regard. But what surprised the PMO was UP Governor Suraj Bhan's statement asking Vajpayee to clinch the Kashmir issue once and for all.

While Vajpayee has maintained that his Government is averse to crossing the LoC, Union Home Minister L K Advani told reporters in Srinagar on June 30 that the military has no intention of crossing the LoC ``as of today.''The Sangh Parivar feels that despite India succeeding in isolating Pakistan diplomatically, as was done by Indira Gandhi in 1971 when hundreds of thousands of refugees from East Pakistancrossed into Indian territory, the estranged neighbour would not retreat. Indira Gandhi had initiated military action, and Vajpayee, it feels, will have to resort to the same in areas other than Kargil.