Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 28: Celebrating 135th Foundation Day of the party today, Congress took out an impressive flag march in Jammu City observing the day as “save constitution – save nation”.
Led by JKPCC president GA Mir, a large number of Congress leaders and activists marched from Shaheedi Chowk Congress office Jammu towards Indira Chowk passing through Residency Road, Denis Gate, Raghunath Bazar Chowk, Hari Market and culminated at Indira Chowk near Shalamar.
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All senior leaders of the party including PCC functionaries, former ministers, Ex-Legislators, leaders of DCC and frontal wings of the party, Corporators, BDC Chairpersons and other prominent leaders of the party joined the flag march in large number, carrying national flags and party flags. They carried the posters of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr BR Ambedkar with slogans of ”Save Constitution – Save India”
Earlier, PCC chief in the presence of all senior leaders and large gathering hoisted the party flag at Shaheedi Chowk in front of Congress office. The activists of Congress Seva Dal and DCC Jammu held the flag hoisting ceremony and National Anthem was sung on the occasion.
Mir and the entire gathering read out the preamble of the Constitution of India on the occasion and reiterated the pledge of the Congress party to the ideals and the foundation values of the Constitution.
PCC chief while addressing the gathering cautioned against attempts to trample the constitutional values by the present BJP Govt by its authoritarian and undemocratic actions which weaken the basic spirit of the constitution and the principle of unity in diversity as laid down by our founding forefathers. He said that the unity of the nation lies in the spirit of valuing our diversity in the pluralistic Indian society and by enacting discriminatory laws like CAA, the BJP is devaluing our constitutional mandate and weakening the basic strength of the nation.
Prominent leaders who joined the march include Madan Lal Sharma, Tara Chand, Raman Bhalla, Mula Ram, GM Saroori, RS Chib, Majeed Wani, Ravinder Sharma, Prakash Sharma, Th Balwan Singh, Manmohan Singh, Rajnish Sharma, Vikram Malhotra, Hari Singh Chib, Shabir Khan, Manjeet Singh, Krishan Bhagat, Ch Abdul Ghani, Mohinder Parihar, Sheikh Mujeeb, AS Micky, Shiv Dev Singh, Balbir Singh, Haider Malik, GL Chalotra, Ch Gharu Ram, Indu Pawar, YV Sharma, Uday Singh Chib, Rajesh Sadhotra, Neeraj Gupta,Raqeeq Khan, Vinod Sharma, Gurdarshan Singh, Suresh Dogra, Zahida Khan, MK Bhardwaj, HL Pandita, Pranav Shagotra, Ritu Choudhary, Charanjeet Kour, Sonika Sharma and others.
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