Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 9: Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) today observed “Quit India Day” and paid rich tributes to all those who sacrificed their lives during freedom struggle.
While speaking, senior Congress leaders cautioned the people about the designs of communal and fundamentalist forces and said that secularism and religious brotherhood is the strength of nation.
They asked the people to strengthen and maintain religious brotherhood in order to defeat the designs of enemies of India.
The speakers recalled the freedom struggle and the role of Quit India Movement of 1942 launched by Mahatma Gandhi in achieving the goal of freedom. The AICC session at Bombay on August 8, 1942 decided to launch the Quit India Movement and entire national leadership of Congress including Mahatma Gandhi were taken into custody during the night. The next day Aruna Asif Ali a young leader hoisted the flag and movement was launched through the length and breadth of the contrary, they informed.
During this period, when Mahatma Gandhi was in jail, his wife Kasturba Gandhi also expired, they said. The Congress leaders took the pledge to follow firmly path of secularism and defeat the forces who were trying to weaken the nation and the State, they added.
Dharam Pal Sharma, Ex-MP along with senior leaders of PCC and DCC and frontal organizations including Sham Lal Sharma, Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Hari Singh, Gurmukh Singh, Ravinder Sharma, MLC, Vinod Sharma, Indu Pawar, MLA, Shiv Dev Singh, Hans Raj Bhagat, Prakash Sharma, Manmohan Singh, Narinder Sharma, SR Sudhir, DS Langeh, BB Gupta, Ravi Singh Salathia besides many others attended the programme.
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