Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 4: National Conference today paid glowing tribute to Baba-e-Qoum, Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah on his 116th birth anniversary, terming him a man of iron-determination and incisive vision.
While paying rich tributes to Sher-e-Kashmir, the Party rank and file called him father figure and political colossus, who helped change Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh from a feudal and colonial society to a free, democratic and secular one. The functionaries said that throughout his prismatic political career, Sher-e-Kashmir symbolized the aspirations of the Kashmiri people as no single individual could have even dreamt of doing.
“Although rooted in Kashmir, he had attained a national standing with his name becoming synonymous in the minds of countrymen with the socialism, humanism, pluralism, and democracy. He was a popular leader and a social reformer who fought for the rights of the oppressed sections of the society, irrespective of caste, creed or religion and strived for the sustenance of secular and pluralistic values. He nurtured and strengthened this characteristic and cemented the bonds of love between various sections of the society and different regions of J&K and Ladakh,” the party functionaries said.
“The vision of Sher-e-Kashmir espoused a reasonable standard of living for all people in the state irrespective of their caste, creed, religion and region. The basic agricultural and economic plan would be abolition of landlordism, land to tiller and people’s control over the resources of the state,” they noted.
“The spirit of secularism and tolerance possessed by Sher-e-Kashmir was the cumulative effect of the environment which generation after generation has fine-tuned the psyche of people of J&K. His political struggle for the restoration of people’s rights wasn’t exclusive, on the contrary it was inclusive. A mass movement organizer, Sheikh Sahib’s struggle was never aimed to alleviate the suffering of particular followers of a faith,” they said.
Those who paid tributes to him on his birth anniversary include party general secretary Haji Ali Muhammad Sagar, treasurer Shammi Oberoi, provincial presidents Nasir Aslam Wani, Ratan Lal Gupta, party MPs Muhammad Akbar Lone, Hassnain Masoodi, former MP Sharief Ud Din Shariq, senior leaders Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan, Abdul Rahim Rather, Muhammad Shafi Uri, Mian Altaf Ahmed, Mubarak Gul, Sakina Itoo, Shameema Firdous, GA Shah, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, Nazir Gurezi, Ajay Sadothra, Mir Saifullah, Irfan Shah, Sajad Ahmed Kitchloo, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardhy, Dr Bashir Ahmed Veeri, Javed Dar, Ali Muhammad Dar, Javed Rana, Mohammad Syed Akhoon, Showkat Mir, GM Mir, Peer Afaq, Dr Sajad Shafi, Altaf Ahmad Wani, Abdul Majeed Bhat and others.
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