Congress to dedicate Martyrdom Day of Rajiv Gandhi to Panchayat Raj System

Congress to kick start preparations for PRI elections on Rajiv’s martyrdom day on May 21^st 

JAMMU, May 11: Congress has decided to dedicate  this year’s  Martyrdom Day of  Former Prime Minister and the Architect of Panchayat Raj system in the Country,  Shri Rajiv Gandhi  on May 21^st to the Panchayat Raj system in the JKUT and  decided to  hold an impressive convention  in Jammu  on that day to sound the bigul  for the forthcoming  elections to the Panchayats and urban bodies.

This was  announced  here today  by JKPCC President  Shri Vikar Rasool Wani in an impressive  meeting of the senior leaders and district presidents besides  the representatives of the  Panchayat Raj Institutions held at party HQ Jammu . AICC Incharge J&K Affairs Smt. Rajni Patil, MP and Co-incharge Shri Manoj Yadav shall attend the convention to pay tributes  to Shri Rajiv Gandhi and to recall his contributions in various spheres especially in transforming  and de-centralizing the democracy to the grass root level through 73^rd and 74^th amendment of the Constitution.

Shri Vikar Rasool Wani  announced that the congress party shall contest  all the forthcoming elections  to the Panchayats and urban local bodies  with full force and complete preparations  to give a befitting electoral defeat to the BJP in Jammu region which  has utterly failed  to come up to the expectations of the people  of the different sections  and gave lot of miseries to each and every section of the society.

JKPCC Chief said that BJP is running away from the much delayed  Assembly elections in UT for fear of backlash and  defeat , the people will teach BJP  a lesson in all forthcoming elections in   Jammu and Kashmir. He asked the incharges of different districts of the party  to hold regular meetings  with the representatives of the PRI’s including last contested candidates in the Panchayts and Municipal bodies  to aggressively prepare for the forthcoming elections .

He said that this year’s martyrdom day of Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the architect of the Panchayat Raj system in the country has been dedicated  to strengthen the grass root democracy in the UT which has been deprived of democratic rights to elect their Assembly  and choose their elected Government in Jammu and Kashmir post 2014.

Former Dy Chief Minister Tara Chand lashed out at the BJP  for depriving the people of their basic democratic rights in Jammu and Kashmir. The full fledged Dogra  state has been downgraded arbitrarily and unilaterally  depriving the  people of their identity and rights and  for the past 5 years there is no elected government  after the  desolation of the assembly in 2018.

Shri Tara Chand asked party cadres to expose the BJP in all fronts especially for depriving the people of J&K of the basic democratic rights and ruling Jammu Kashmir by proxy. He said Rajiv Gandhi transformed the democracy through Panchayat Raj to transfer power to the people of grass root levels.

The meeting was briefed by Shri Ravinder Sharma-Chief Spokesperson over the   current political and economic situation and the role of the J&K Congress in corporating the  vision and the model of the Panchayat Raj system  of Rajiv Gandhi to the Panchayat Raj in Jammu and Kashmir for which his death anniversary should be dedicated to the PRI system in view of forth coming elections.

Senior leaders who attended and gave their inputs in the meeting include Th. Balwan Singh,  T.S. Bajwa (Ex-MP), Th. Balbir Singh (Ex-MLA), Manmohan Singh, Indu Pawar ( EX-MLA), Gurbachan Kumari Rana (EX-Minister),  Ved Mahajan (Ex-MLC), Vinod Sharma, M.K. Bhardwaj, DCC Presidents – Ashok Dogra, Krishan Chander Bhagat, Rajesh Sadotra, Sheikh Mujeeb,  Pankaj Dogra, Babal Gupta , Shashi Sharma, Pawan Raina, Corporators Dwarka Choudhary, Th. Kamal Singh and  Rajinder Singh, Shiv Kumar Sharma,  Gurdarshan Singh, Kuldeep Verma,  Karan Bhagat, Narinder Gupta, Thomas Khokhar, Subash Bhagat, Naresh Sharma, Balbir Singh,  Sanjeev Panda, Bhushan Dogra, Vijay Kumar Shastri, Kapil Singh,  Rajesh Sharma, Sahil Sharma, H.S. Mehta, Uttam Singh Chib,  Rajinder Singh Nathu, Satish Sharma, Rajvir Singh, Col Swarn Singh, Vinod Khajuria, Nirdosh Sharma, Sumit Magotra, Badri Nath Sharma, Sangeeta Bhagat, Bharat Bhushan, Rajan Sharma, Rashi Pawar, Sumit Magotra, Vinod Khajuria, Jatin Raina, Gurmeet Singh,Parshotam Mehra and others.

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