Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 9: A large number of prominent persons and youth from different wards of Jammu East joined the Congress party today after expressing faith in the ideology of the party and the leadership of senior Congress leaders.
The joining programme was held under the leadership of JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla, District Congress Committee Jammu Urban president Yogesh Sawhney and former MLC Ved Mahajan. The programme was organised by Sohit Sharma, Incharge Jammu East, in the presence of several senior Congress leaders including Varinder Manhas, Pawan Dev Singh, Chander Shekhar, Rakesh Sharma, Viyant Pathania, Atul Sharma and Vijay Sharma.
Prominent among those joined congress include- Deepak Dogra, Nitan Kapoor, Raj Kumar, Deepak Tehran, Subash Gupta, Bhano Pratap Sigh, Vishal Khajuri, Sanjay Sharma, Prince Mahajan, Rudhra Nazir, Vikram, Nazir, Kabir Dogra and others.
Addressing the gathering, Raman Bhalla said that the youth of J&K are passing through one of the most difficult phases due to rising unemployment, lack of opportunities, increasing frustration and growing social insecurity. He alleged that educated youth are wandering from office to office in search of jobs while thousands of highly qualified young men and women continue to remain unemployed despite possessing degrees and technical qualifications. He said the BJP Government has failed to formulate a concrete employment policy for the youth of the Union Territory.
Bhalla said that even uneducated and semi-skilled youth are facing severe hardships as traditional sources of livelihood have weakened and inflation has made life miserable for common families. He stated that the dreams of youth are being crushed due to lack of recruitment drives, delay in examinations, paper leak incidents and absence of industrial growth in Jammu and Kashmir.
Yogesh Sawhney said that the joining of prominent citizens and energetic youth into the Congress fold reflects the people’s growing trust in the ideology and vision of the party. He said that Congress has always stood with the poor, unemployed, labourers, traders and weaker sections of society, whereas the present regime has failed to address the genuine concerns of the common people.
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