Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 1: JKPCC president Ghulam Ahmed Mir has impressed upon the Congress workers to vigorously hold membership drive in their respective areas as membership is backbone of any political party, which shall followed by elections at all levels in the party.
Addressing a meeting of senior functionaries PCC, District presidents, Frontal organizations heads, Corporators and other important leaders of the party from different district of Jammu region here today, Mir said that Membership drive is already in progress and it shall be followed by organizational elections right from booth level units, Blocks, Districts, PCC to AICC. The election process is being supervised by the Independent Election Authority of the Party at the national level as well as in state/UT levels.
The meeting was attended and addressed by several senior leaders including i Raman Bhalla, Mula Ram, Kanta Bhan, Ravinder Sharma, Yogesh Sawhney, Manmohan Singh, Rajnish Sharma, Balbir Singh, Ashok Sharma,TS Bajwa, Gurbachan Kumari Rana, Shahnawaz Choudhary, Indu Pawar, Ved Mahajan, GL Chalotra, Hari Singh Chib, Krishan Bhagat, Ch. Abdul Gani, Farooq Katoch, Rajesh Sadotra, Pankaj Dogra, Sanjeev Sharma, Ashok Dogra, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Gurdarshan Singh, Vijay Sharma, Suresh Dogra and others.
PCC Chief asked party leaders of all levels to enroll maximum members at each booth, as booth is the most important Unit. He said that PRO for Jammu and Kashmir Ranjita Ranjan (EX-MP) shall be monitoring the overall membership drive, besides each committee shall be monitored by BROs & DROs etc. He said that membership shall be available on digital mode also.
Without naming any party Mir said that Congress party does not believe in miss call membership and it enrolls members by making personal contact to each and every person who believe on the policies and programmes of the Congress party and want to become member of the party. He asked the senior functionaries including Ex-legislators, District and Block presidents, Frontal wings of the party to strengthen the party by means of vigorously membership drive.
Meanwhile the speakers expressed grave concern over the withdrawal of security cover to several top leaders of the party including former ministers and legislators and senior functionaries on discriminatory basis exposing them to the nefarious designs of terrorist and international forces, whereas the ruling leaders and other favorite have m ore than adequate security.