Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 15 : Former Minister and veteran leader Thakur Randhir Singh paid rich tribute to former Chief Minister (CM) late GM Sadiq on his 48th death anniversary.
On the occasion, Thakur Randhir Singh released a group photographs to the media of small Council of Ministers in the history of Jammu and Kashmir led by late Ghulam Mohd Sadiq during 1964 when several central laws were introduced in J&K and brought Indian National Congress and INTUC in the state.
Singh said it was a pleasure to be a minister in those days under late G M Sadiq who always encouraged the younger MLA’s like me to participate in various International Conferences in foreign countries. Singh remembered his last meeting with late G M Sadiq at PGI Chandigarh on December 10, 1971 during Indo-Pakistan war where he was under treatment and died in harness on Dec 12, 1971.
The former Minister said it is very sad that there is no suitable memorial built in the name of late G M Sadiq a great nationalist leader.