Excelsior Correspondent
BARAMULLA, July 2: Carrying forward party’s mass contact programme named Vistarak Yojana to far off places in Jammu and Kashmir State, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Vice President Yudhvir Sethi after having toured remote areas of Jammu, Suderbani, Nowshera and Baramulla today reached Pattan along with District President BJP Baramulla Desh Kumar Nehru and Incharge Vistarak Yojana North Kashmir Arif Raja.
While speaking to party functionaries, Yudhvir Sethi reminded them of the fact that Kashmir is known as ‘Pir Waer’-Alcove of Sufis and Saints, a status that needed to be retained despite all odds.
Sethi was speaking to a gathering of party functionaries as part of Party Chief Amit Shah’s programme wherein several thousand Vistaraks (fulltime workers) are apprising people of party’s programmes and policies all over the country including Jammu and Kashmir.
He said while great Saiva, Vaisnava and Buddhists texts were composed here, Islamic spirituality has also left a deep impact on the region since 9th and 10th centuries.
This land of Sufis and Saints, he said was badly hit by cycle of violence. Since Kashmiriyat epitomises an age old norm of synergised coexistence that has been practiced in the Valley since times immemorial there was a need of building confidence amongst masses so that peace could return to this Heaven on Earth.
He said that the BJP by holding mass contact programmes intend to make people of Kashmir aware of State as well as Central Government’s sincerest efforts to help them live an honourable life wherein they could progress and prosper.
All religions in Kashmir revere the Sufi saints of their holy land like Lal Ded and Nund Rishi with equal fervour. Terrorism, money power, corruption and nepotism during past two decades have all vitiated peaceful and progressive atmosphere of Kashmir. While extending his support to youth, he said it’s because of their efforts that a lost era of peace and tranquillity could return to this land of Sufi Saints.
Desh Nehru informed the party functionaries to strengthen party at all levels and also set up units wherever BJP lacks any presence, while Arif Raja said that youth in Kashmir are being misguided and made to spill on roads for pelting stones at security forces by some vested interests, who are inimical to peace.
Prominent among others present on the occasion were Arti Nehru Rana, Shabbir Ahmed, Imran, Mohd Maqbool, Abdul Ganai, Ashiq Dar and Gulam Hassan.
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