Diplomat Correspondent
Jammu:DD, Rich tributes were paid to the first Prime Minister Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 136th birth anniversary in an impressive function held here today at JK Resort Marble Market Jammu.
JK PCC President Tariq Hameed Karra was the chief guest while AICC General Secretary and CLP leader G.A. Mir was the guest of honour in the function which was attended by a large number of senior leaders, former Ministers and Legislature, District Presidents and leaders of frontal wings from All over Jammu Province.
On the occasion the PCC Leadership launched the fourth phase of the struggle
for the restoration of statehood “Hamari Riyasat Hamara Haq ” through the slogan “Ghar Ghar Dastak, Har Ghar Dastak” ., by releasing a book containing the material to reach out and educate the masses to join the struggle for therestoration of the statehood, dignity, identity, honour, status and rights to land
job and natural resources snatched by the BJP. The party also issued certificates of appreciation to all those party workers who participated in the hunger strike for the statehood movement.
Addressing the gathering JKPCC President Tariq Hameed Karra described Pt.
Nehru as a great stalwart of freedom struggle and architect of modern India as the first Prime Minister of this country.
He was the great visionary leader and
statesman of his time and leader of the international stature, who played a great role in the World and enhanced the image of India as a messenger of peace and harmony in the community of nations.
Karra recalled his remarkable contributions in the shaping the destiny of future of the country and establishing the strong foundations of the democracy and the democratic institutions in the country which are under strain at present from the forces in power and asked the party men to take a pledge on his birth
anniversary to protect and safeguard the democracy and the values laid down by
him and other stalwarts of his time and to defeat the tendencies to demolish weaken those values.
He also recalled the great role played by Pt. Nehru in the accession and
integration of Jammu and Kashmir with India and condemned those designs
and efforts to distort history and facts to belittle his role to mislead and misguide the younger generations.
He asked party men to reach out to the people and work hard to save democracy
and aggressively; launch the campaign against vote chori started by our bold and
dynamic leader Rahul Gandhi.
He also asked party workers to reach out to the
masses at the grass root level to intensify the struggle for restoration of full
statehood through Ghar Ghar Dastak, Har Ghar Dastak.
AICC General Secretary and CLP leader Ghulam Ahmed Mir paid floral tributes to the great leader and recalled his sacrifices in the freedom struggle and remarkable contributions in the country as the first prime minister in laying down strong foundations for the future.
He said that he established strong foundations of democracy but cautioned against the serious threats to the democratic culture and values from the forces in power.
He said that Congress party and other secular democratic forces have to
intensify their efforts to check the all out attempts to pollute and weaken the democratic system and the electoral system in order to maintain the faith of the people and the system.
He referred to the vote chori campaign launched by the
LOP Rahul Gandhi, thereby he exposed the manipulations and the
irregularity and illegalities being committed to highjack the democracy.
He also questioned the cash for vote scheme being launched on the eve of elections
under the nose of the Election Commission.
Working President Raman Bhalla paid ricu tributes to Pt. Nehru and recalled
his great contributions I the freedom movement and as a first prime minister and
said that te generations to come will not forget his role, however the forces in
power are trying to distort history to mislead the future generations against
which the congress party and other right thinking people have to standup.
Several Senior Leaders former ministers legislators district presidents and other
paid floral tributes to the great leader and pledged to fight against attempts to
distort history and belittle the role of congress party and the stalwarts like Pt. Nehru and to weaken the democracy and the values laid down by forefathers and stalwarts of the nation.
Prominent amongst them include AICC Secretaries Shah Nawaz Choudhary and Neeraj Kundan, EX-MP Ch. Lal Singh, Ex-Ministers Mula Ram , Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma , Former Minister Yogesh Sawhney, Smt. Indu Pawa(ExMLA) Shri Ved Mahajan(Ex-MLC), Ex-Minister Yashpal Kundal, Krishan Chander Bhagat Ex-MLA) , Th. Balbir Singh (Ex-MLA), Sian Abdul Rashid DDC, Rajnish Sharma (Treasurer) Sdr. T.S. Tony DDC, Smt. Kanta Bhan, S.Amolak Singh, Smt.Zahida Khan, Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, , Amrit Bali, Suresh Kumar Dogra, Satish Sharma, Rajesh Sadhotra, District Presidents Manmohan Singh ( Jammu Urban) Pankaj Dogra( Kathua) Sanjeev Sharma ( Samba) , Shiekh Mujeeb (Doda) Vinod Khujuria(Udhampur), Asif Naqeeb ( Kishtwar), Bupinder Singh Jamwal ( Reasi) Pravez Wani (Ramban),Contested candidate Ashok Bhagat & Sumit Magotra, Babbal Gupta, Vijay Sharma(Seva Dal), Neeraj Gupta, Mamta Dogra, Santosh Manjotra, Nadeem Sharief Niaz, Dwarka Chowdhary, Sanjeev Sharma (Panda) Rajveer Singh, Thakur Hoshyar Singh, Vijay Shastri , Ch. Hussain Ali Waffa(ST Dept) , Ajay Lakhotra(NSUI), Rajiv Saraf, Jagdeep Singh, Anirudh Sawhnay, Swarveer Singh(PYC), Adv. Bhavishya Sudan, Jatin Raina (Social Media) ,Vijyant Pathania, Sohit Sharma, Romal Singh, Ajaib Motan, Manjeet Singh Bedi, Latish Sharma, Sonu Dogra Jatinder Bhagat, Jung Bahadur, Mohan Lal Bhamagi, Mandeep Choudhary, Suman Wazir, Vimla Slathia, Anuradha Sharma, Gurmeet Singh, Pradeep Bhalla, Rajinder Singh Randhawa.
