Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 6: Capt Praveen Davar, secretary AICC Ex-Servicemen Department, has said that BJP-RSS must drop the idea of projecting Narindra Modi as Prime Ministerial candidate after expose made by senior Police officer Banjara about him.
Asserting that secularism is the basic strength of Indian nation, he said that the country would never accept any communal person as Prime Minister.
Addressing a function at Suchet Garh today organized to pay tributes to martyr Sepoy Romesh Kumar, who laid down his life for the nation in Poonch sector in year 1998, AICC Secretary urged the ex-servicemen to assume the role of soldiers of secularism in order to defeat the challenge posed by the communal and fundamental forces which are posing threat to the unity and integrity of the nation.
The senior Congress leader said that Congress has brought ex-servicemen near to the goal of one rank one pension which was long pending demand and had been totally ignored by other Governments of the country in the past.
Congress party led by Sonia Gandhi has given important rights to the countrymen through the process of legislation, he said and listed Right to Information(RTI), Right to Education(RTE), Right to Employment( MGNREGA), Right to Food (Food Security Act) and Right to Land (Accusation Act).
Former Minister and senior Congress leader R S Chib, in his address, referred to the problems of refugees and displaced persons of 1947, 65 and 1971 as well as those from West Pakistan and said that Congress party has taken major initiatives to resolve their long pending demands of one time settlement and ownership right etc.
MLC Ravinder Sharma also spoke on the occasion and said that Congress party has promised to take up the demands of granting a special concession and benefits to the border belt on the pattern of RBA.
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