Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Apr 3: BJP national vice president and incharge J&K Avinash Rai Khanna has stressed on close coordination between the party cadres and the team of new Ministers to take the oath of office tomorrow.
Addressing the concluding session of two days Party Working Committee meeting here, Khanna said the close coordination between party activists and team of Ministers is need of the hour to strengthen the base of Party on grass root level. This will also send a good message among the masses and the party activists will also take the message of Government and its pro public policies and programmes to the people more vigorously.
While expressing his confidence over the achievements of last 10 months of previous coalition led by former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, Khanna said tomorrow the new PDP-BJP coalition will take oath and it is for the first time that the State will have a woman Chief Minister. This shows our commitment to the empowerment of the women, he added.
He declared that BJP will come to power again in the State in the next elections. “No one had dreamt that J&K will ever have the BJP Government in the State and when for the first time after his appointment as prabhari of the State he made an announcement in this regard the people laughed at him. But this proved prophetic later and the party for the first time in the history of State joined the coalition Government’’, he added.
He said BJP is today second largest party in the State and its presence is in all three regions. Though the Party did not win any Assembly seat from Kashmir valley, still it had 2.5 lakh members from Valley which shows its growing popularity in the State.
Khanna said no one knew about the Lotus in Ladakh five years back and today BJP is dominating the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh having majority of 18 councilors and prior to that the party won the Lok Sabha seat in Ladakh region also.
Highlighting the achievements of Narendra Modi led Central Government, he said India’s prestige has increased at international level since BJP led Government took over at Centre in May 2014. During the UPA rule no foreign company was ready to invest in India as that Government had earned the notoriety of scams but in last about two years there is not a single case of corruption against any Minister, he added.
He said celebration of international Yoga Divas through UNO is also a great achievement of Modi Government while many welfare schemes and projects were also launched for the development of the country and welfare of the people since then. He appealed the Party cadres to make people aware of these schemes and projects.
Moreover, the Modi Government at Centre made international community realize that Pakistan was responsible for terrorist attacks in India and this is the greatest achievement of the Government, he said.
Former Minister and MLA Raipur damana Bali Bhagat highlighted the achievements of 10 months of previous coalition. He said the Government was working smoothly and many developmental schemes were undertaken for the welfare of the people but unfortunately with the sudden demise of former Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayed, the State was put under Governor’s rule. He reiterated the commitment of the Party to work for the welfare of the people.
The BJP MP and former president Jugal Kishore Sharma also spoke on the occasion.
During the concluding day economic resolution was adopted by the Party in which thrust was given to the development of rural and far flung areas of the State.
The Resolution was moved by BJP general secretary, Dr Narinder Singh and it was seconded by former State president and MLC Ashok Khajuria.
The proceedings of the programme were conducted by BJP general secretary Pawan Khajuria.
Later talking to reporters at the sidelines of the meeting Deputy CM designate Dr Nirmal Singh said that new Government will take oath tomorrow and distribution of portfolios will be decided by late night.
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