JAMMU, Mar 14: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad today said ‘politics of the hatred’ is dangerous for the nation.
“The politics of the hatred is a dangerous campaign for the country,” Mr Azad said while addressing a public gathering at Sunderbani and Nowshera towns of Rajouri district. The Union Minister is on a three-day visit to the state to kick start the campaign for Congress candidate for Rajouri-Poonch Constituency Madan Lal Sharma.
Mr Azad urged people to reject the communal and divisive forces and strengthen the secular and progressive forces in order to strengthen the unity and integrity of the nation and the state.
“Foundation of this country has been laid on secular ideals which is strength of our nation and we should not allow to weaken this at any cost,” he added and urged people to reject such kind of forces who are posing threat to the secular fabric of the nation.
He also referred to the numerous achievements of the coalition government in the state by the liberal funding of UPA government and appealed to people to vote in favour of coalition candidates in the state.
The Union Minister said country has witnessed tremendous development in all spheres of life under the UPA regime in the past 10 years including in Jammu and Kashmir. “The negative campaign against the UPA is only to divert the attention of people from the achievements of government in every spheres of life including road network, hospitals, education and other pro-poor schemes which have benefited the cross sections of the society,” said the former Chief Minister. Meanwhile, Pradesh Congress Committee president Saif-ud-Din Soz in his address referred to fulfilment of various issues like implementation of 73rd Amendment, creation of large number of Administrative Units, although there are some genuine demands from certain areas for creation of such units. “The 73rd Amendment will strengthen the basic democratic institutions that is Panchayats in the state,” he said and added that issue of refugees of different categories for which Congress party initiated talks with Prime Minister, UPA Chairperson and Union Home Minister for one time settlement and the party is trying its best to solve their issues. He also referred the demand of Border Migrants, Reservation for Jats and issue of OBC’s which have been taken up at the highest level.
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