Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU July 14: With the approval of President J&K National Conference Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Working President Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Omar Abdullah and General Secretary Ali Mohammed Sagar, the Provincial President Jammu Devender Singh Rana today reconstituted the Provincial Committee of the Jammu Province.
The reconstituted body will have 22 Vice Presidents, a Provincial Secretary, a Treasurer, 13 Secretaries and Jt. Secretaries.
The Vice Presidents nominated are Brij Mohan Sharma, Ex-MLC, Bashir Ahmad Wani, Qazi Jalal -ud- Din, Ex-MLA, Dr. Chaman Lal Bhagat, Ex-MLA, Vipan Pal Sharma , Jugal Mahajan, Ghulam Haider Malik, Ch Mohd Hussain, ex-MLC, Ch Haroon, Gurdeep Singh Sasan, Ex-Deputy Speaker, Abdul Wahid Shan, Ex-MLA, Ch. Mohammad Shafi, Advocate, Ch. Liaqat Ali, Advocate, Ch. Rahim Dad, Ex-MLC, S. Harcharan Singh Baby, Bimla Luthra, Ex-MLA, Vijay Lakshmi Dutta, Anila Shaheen, Anil Dhar, Mohinder Singh, Chander Mohan Sharma and Mohammad Ayub Malik.
While Sheikh Bashir Ahmad has been nominated as Province Secretary, Israr Khan will be Treasurer of the party in the Jammu Province.
The Secretaries nominated are Mohammad Aslam Khan, Ex-MLA, Dhian Chand,Ex-MLA, Pardeep Bali, Ch. Wali Dad, Ch. Arshad, Romesh Motan, Sheikh Mohammad Shafi, Rajesh Bakshi, Subash Chander Sharma, Rashida Begum, Daljeet Sharma, Dilshad Begum and Rita Gupta.
Bharti Sharma, Lal Chand Musafir, Shamshad Shan, Qasim Din Bania, Bharat Bhushan, Advocate, Ch. Mumtaz Bajar, G.H. Malik, Hasham Din Qureshi, M.L. Munshi, Khalid Hussain Mughal, Raj Kapoor, Rakesh Gupta (Kishtwar) and Rahul Mahajan have been nominated as Joint Secretaries.
Ajaz Jan, former MLA Poonch has been nominated as Provincial President Youth National Conference, Jammu Province and Satwant Kour Dogra as Provincial President National Conference, Women Wing, Jammu province.
Meanwhile, Dr. Kamal Arora, MLA Bishnah has been nominated as District President Jammu Rural (B), Sunil Verma as District President Udhampur, Ram Parshotam Sharma as District Secretary Udhampur, Bhushan Uppal as District President Rajouri (Rural) and Ajeet Kumar Sharma as District President Kathua.
Babu Ram Paul, former Minister has been nominated as the Chairman of SC/ OBC Cell of the party with Abdul Gani Teli as the Co-chairman of OBC Cell and Vijay Lochan as the Co-chairman of SC Cell.
Meanwhile, cautioning against the machinations to fiddle with Article 35A of the Constitution of India, Mr Rana said that National Conference will fight tooth and nail all such nefarious acts.
“Any infringement with the special status of the State will amount to backstabbing the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions”, Mr Rana said at a simple ceremony at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan held in connection with the taking over of the new presidents of Youth National Conference and Women Wing Jammu Province and District Jammu Rural (B).
Reiterating the stand of National Conference stand on Article 370, Mr Rana said this is a formidable bridge between the State and Union of India, which had been incorporated in the Constitution after due thought. Impairing this provision will amount to weakening the strong bonds between the State and the country, he maintained.
He advised the PDP-BJP coalition against any misadventure in the wake of failures on all fronts and said these will boomerang. He said the people of Jammu and Kashmir would resist all such designs which are detrimental to the uniqueness of this state.
The Provincial President exuded confidence that National Conference will reemerge as a force to reckon with and said that realization dawning over people in the wake of PDP-BJP Government’s abject failure on all fronts have changed the political dimensions in Jammu and Kashmir.
He said the people were looking towards National Conference with hope and the party, which has all along remained in forefront for their legitimate cause, cannot afford to be a fence sitter. “Therefore, a heavy duty has cast upon every National Conference functionary and worker to meet the challenge with courage and fortitude”, he said and exhorted the cadre to gear up for their big role in steering out the state from the present uncertain situation.
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