Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 12: J&K Pradesh Congress Committee today paid rich tribute to GM Sadiq, former Prime Minister and first Chief Minister of J&K and founder of Congress Party in J&K, Syed Mir Qasim (Former Chief Minister) and G M Mir Lasjan (Former Minister) on their death anniversaries.
Paying floral tribute to the veteran leaders, the senior Congress leaders described GM Sadiq as a most secular patriotic and able administrator who served the state and the country with great dedication. He provided corruption free and efficient government to the people of Jammu and Kashmir State.
Sadiq played an important role to further cement the State- Centre relationship and took revolutionary steps to integrate J&K through Constitutional amendment to change the nomenclature of Sadr-e-Riyasat to Governor and Prime Minister to Chief Minister. It was under his leadership the Congress was formally founded in J&K in 1965.
The leaders also remembered the services of former Chief Minister, Syed Mir Qasim and G M Mir Lasjan, who were also founder members of Congress and described them best administrators who always cared for people and kept their interests above all.
Sayed Mir Qasim quit the post of Chief Minister to pave way for the installation of Sheikh Mohd Abdullah as Chief Minister in 1975, following Indira-Sheikh Accord, in the larger interest of nation to strengthen the mainstream politics in Jammu and Kashmir. All three Congress stalwarts remained committed to the secular and democratic principles and ideology of the Congress party.
Prominent among those who paid tributes included Raman Bhalla, Mula Ram, Yogesh Sawhney, Gurbachan Kumari Rana, Ravinder Sharma, Ved Mahajan, Nizam-Ud-Din Bhat, Th Balbir Singh, Rajnish Sharma, Hari Singh Chib, Manmohan Singh, Sanjeev Panda, Neeraj Gupta and others.
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