Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 15: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has asked the Centre and UT Administration to remove all sorts of restrictions and curbs on the leaders of Congress and other main stream political parties if the Government is really interested in any genuine political activity to take off in Jammu and Kashmir.
Lashing out at the Centre and UT Administration for the selective and sponsored political activities only while putting various kinds of unannounced restrictions and hurdles in any sort of activity by the credible leadership and main stream parties, senior functionaries of JKPCC resolved to unitedly oppose the vindictive and divisive policies of the Centre and UT Administration towards the Congress and mainstream opposition leaders.
PCC chief GA Mir presided over the meeting which was attended by former PCC president Peerzada Mohd Sayeed, Madan Lal Sharma Ex-MP, Tara Chand Ex-DyCM, former ministers Taj Mohi-ud-Din, Mula Ram, Raman Bhalla, GM Saroori, MS Niaz, R S Chib, senior leaders Haji Abdul Rashid Dar, Kanta Bhan, Prakash Sharma; Yogesh Sawhney & Dr Manohar Lal Sharma (Both MOS), Ch Mohd Akram, Rajnish Sharma, Balwan Singh, Manmohan Singh, Shah Nawaz Choudhary, Surinder Singh Channi and others.
The meeting discussed threadbare the overall political scenario of Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting said that Congress shall not be cowed down by any kind of vindictive actions of Centre and UT and will continue to move ahead on its settled path and ideology to maintain religious and regional harmony and fight for restoration of dignity, honour, status and rights of J&K including full state hood, rights of land and jobs to youth.
They criticized BJP Government for its failures on various fronts, especially on economic front as well as its fundamental duty for maintaining peace and harmony in the country. The BJP Govt at the Centre is trying to divert the attention of people from its failures, by engaging the people on unproductive and destructive paths of various kinds of social and political convicts and cautioned the people against divisive agenda of BJP and its allied forces and appeal to them to maintain communal harmony at all costs.
It was also decided in the meeting that in view of the corona virus, the proposed convention of the party on March 21-22 has been postponed. All India Congress Committee programme of “ Gandhi Sandesh Yatra” from March 12 to April 6, 2020 has already been postponed.