Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 22: Launching 40 days’ movement to save Constitution and Press for the restoration of Statehood to J&K, a high level meeting of JKPCC decided here today to carry forward the movement in all districts and Assembly segments besides to hold a mega protest rally on May 1st in Jammu .
Chaired by JKPCC president, Tariq Hameed Karra, the meeting was attended by working presidents Tara Chand, Raman Bhalla, former MP Ch Lal Singh besides former Ministers, MLA/MLCs, District presidents, Block heads, leaders of Frontal wings/ cells and other prominent leaders of the party from entire Jammu Province, at Pata Bohri here on Tuesday.
Addressing the gathering JKPCC chief told the party leaders to gear up the party cadres in their respective Assembly segments, blocks and districts to expose the BJP’s politics of vendetta to divert and digress the attention of people from real issues facing the common man and the youth.
He called upon all DCC block presidents, contesting candidates besides party functionaries of all levels to mobilize the cadres for participation in the protest rally on May 1st besides holding series of rallies in all districts before May 3rd to May 10 and Assembly Segments from May 11 to May 17 and blocks etc up to May end. All frontal wings were also asked to mobilize their cadres to organize and participate in the rallies all over the UT.
Karra said that Congress shall not take lying down any attack on our leadership and on democracy and constitutional institutions., by the Modi Govt which is out to weaken our constitutional institutions in the country to divert the attention of the people from its communal and divisive and vendetta politics.
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Paying floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and Dr BR Ambedkar, Karra said that BJP and Modi Govt has been weakening the constitution and constitutional institutions in the country for the last several years besides targeting the main opposition leaders through ED, CBI, IT and other agencies. The fresh attack on our leadership Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald case is a clear matter of vendetta without any case or criminality, which was closed earlier.
He announced that to strongly oppose the BJP Govt’s attack on our Constitution and target our leadership continuously ignoring the demand of statehood besides to highlight the burning issues of people, the Congress shall hold a large protest on May 1st at Pata Bohri Talab Tillo, Jammu which shall also be addressed by AICC General Secretary incharge J&K affair Dr Syed Naseer Hussain and other senior leaders.
Karra expressed grave concern over the failure of the Centre Govt to contain the worsening security situation as a result our security forces are sacrificing their lives and the people especially in the borders, remote and far flung villages in Jammu region are fearing their lives.
Prominent those who participated includes Gurmukh Singh, Jahangir Mir, Yogesh Sawhney Ravinder Sharma, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma, Yashpal Kundal, Gurbachan Kumari Rana, Rajneesh Sharma, Amrinder Singh Mickey, S. S. Channi, Manmohan Singh, Hari Singh Chib, Bhushan Dogra, Sham Lal Bhagat, Dina Nath Bhagat, Krishan Lal Bhagat, MK Bhardwaj, Shashi Sharma, Taranjit Singh Tony, Namrta Sharma, Amrit Bali, Suresh Dogra, Narinder Sharma, Arshad Tantrey, Shakeel Shah, Pankaj Dogra, Sheikh Mujeeb, Bhupinder Singh Jamwal, Vinod Khajuria and others.
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