Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: National Conference (NC) president and Member of Parliament (MP) from Srinagar Dr Farooq Abdullah and vice president Omar Abdullah today led the party functionaries, workers and delegates in offering Fateh prayers and floral wreaths at the last resting place of Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 115th birth anniversary.
Earlier today, a Majlis of Quran Khawani, led by party additional general secretary Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal was also held in the reading room at Qaid Mazar, Naseem Bagh. Later, the party general secretary sets in motion the party’s membership drive for the year 2020-21. The first membership tickets were taken by Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah.
The congregational Fateh Khwani saw huge participation of party’s parent body, YNC, women wing leaders, workers, and delegates who had thronged the venue from across Kashmir. The functionaries also paid floral tributes at the final resting place of Sher-e-Kashmir and Madr-e-Meharban.
While paying tributes to Sher-e-Kashmir, party general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar said, “The spirit of secularism and tolerance possessed by Sher-e-Kashmir was the cumulative effect of the environment which generation after generation has fine-tuned the psyche of Kashmiris. Sher-e-Kashmir exhibited the spirit of tolerance, mutual respect and camaraderie towards all religions, sects and creeds. He worked tirelessly, suffered incarcerations throughout for the total redemption of the entire human kind living in Jammu and Kashmir from abject poverty.”
He further added, “In order to provide a joint platform to the people of J&K, he founded National Conference. The first cabinet he headed was insightful of his secular temperament; people like GL Dogra, Sardar Budh Singh, Kushak Bakula and DP Dhar were given important portfolios in the cabinet he headed. He also didn’t let the communal frenzy of 1947 permeate into Kashmir; he educated his people about the merits of a progressive and a secular polity”.
Party provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani in his address to the functionaries and workers said, “Sher-e-Kashmir belonged to that glorious tribe of great men, who changed the course of history. He bequeathed people with equal rights irrespective of their regional and religious affiliations. A true democratic, he ushered in grass roots level democracy in J&K much before it was even thought of in other parts of the country. His land to tiller reforms, single line administration, abolition of big landed estates, abolition of debts, universal adult franchise, gender neutral education helped the subjugated, underprivileged and wretched.”
Among others PAGD member Muzaffar Ahmed Shah, Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal, MPs Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi, senior leaders Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan, Sakina Itoo, Shameema Firdous, Mian Altaf Ahmed, Sharief-Ud-Din Shariq, Irfan Shah, Nazir Ahmed Khan Gurezi, Mubarak Gul and Dr Bashir Veeri paid glowing tributes to Sher-e-Kashmir and recalled his contribution towards the socio political emancipation of the people of J&K.
Similar functions were observed in party’s Kargil, Pir Panjal, and Chenab units where local functionaries Sajad Ahmed Kitchloo, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardhy, Aijaz Jan, Javaid Rana, Sajad Shaheen, Qamar Ali Akhoon paid glowing tributes to Sher-e-Kashmir.
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