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 21st
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 21st 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 73rd and 74th 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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