Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: Rich tributes were paid to former vice president of the Party Tika Lal Taploo and prominent Kashmiri Pandit leader, Pt Prem Nath Bhat on the occasion of Martyr’s Day at a Shradanjali Sabha orgnanised by Migrant Cell of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) led by Bharat Bushan Gosani as its convener at Party Headquarters here today.
The programme began with laying wreath at the portraits of these leaders followed by reciting of Bhagwat Geeta by T.N. Raina.
BJP State President, Jugal Kishore Sharma, alongwith other senior leaders paid tributes to these two great nationalists.
Speaking on the occasion Mr Sharma, said that the people like Tika Lal Taploo and Prem Nath Bhat were torch bearers of nationalist ideology in the Kashmir Valley and their motive of life was to reach the masses and get them united to defeat the anti-national forces. He said that these two leaders laid down their lives for not compromising on their ideology and commitment towards the motherland.
National Executive Member & Leader of legislative Party Ashok Khajuria said that the State has suffered a lot during all these years as the special provision Article-370 in Indian Constitution has only induced a sense of separatism among the people in Kashmir who have used it as a tool to blackmail the Centre time and again.
Mr Taploo and Prem Nath Bhat struggled throughout their life for total integration of State with the rest of the country, he added.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said that the struggle started by Tika Lal Taploo and his colleagues has assumed large dimensions of confrontation between national and anti-national forces, which is still continuing and we are committed to fight it out.
BJP State general secretary (Org.) Ashok Kaul said that the Kashmiri people should work for strengthening BJP as there is no other better option for them.
BJP State vice president, Chander Parkash Ganga, BJP State general secretary & former Mayor, Kavinder Gupta, BJP Cells State convenor Sat Sharma (C.A), were among others.
Bharat Bhushan Bhat Gosani said that the BJP has been remembering the martyrs belonging to Kashmiri Pandit community every year and “we all should come forward to take the nationalist policies of this Party to our community members”.
Migrant Cell Prabhari Shilpi Verma said that the community has suffered a large during the last 24 years and it was only BJP which felt their pain and extended every possible help.
Prominent Kashmiri leader Hira Lal Chatta and free lance Journalist Shiban Khabri recalled their long association with Tika Lal Taploo and Prem Nath Bhat and said that they were institutions in themselves.
T.N. Handoo, P.L. Sudeshi, R.K. Wangnoo, I.K. Bhan, Surinder Jalali, Balji Pandit, Sweety Kaul and others were present on the occasion.
Subash Chatta conducted the proceedings of the programme.
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