Senior Cong leaders discuss current political scenario in J&K

Senior Congress leaders at a meeting in Jammu on Wednesday.
Senior Congress leaders at a meeting in Jammu on Wednesday.

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 28: Senior Congress leaders including AICC secretaries, co-incharge J&K affairs of the party discussed present political situation in the Jammu and Kashmir state, in a meeting held here today.
AICC secretaries co-incharge J&K Affairs Dr Shakeel Ahmed (MLA) and Sudhir Sharma (former Minister) attended the daylong meeting which was presided over by PCC chief GA Mir. All top leaders of the party including AICC members, former Ministers MLCs/ ex-Legislators, DCC presidents & heads of frontal organizations were present.
A threadbare discussion was held on the current political scenario including the latest developments in the recent past, besides the outcome of recent ULB and ongoing Panchayat elections, the future strategy for the forth coming electoral challenges in the State.
Almost all participants shared their views on these issues and gave feedback to the two nominees of AICC about the ground situation and the strategy to deal with the future challenges, to strengthen organization for better prospects in future.
The speakers highlighted the measures to be taken to strengthen the basic structure of the party at booth levels, blocks, districts and PCC level to counter the false propaganda of the BJP at the Centre and in the State.
The meeting shortlisted the issues to be prioritized in the days to come to expose the failure and misdeeds of the previous Government especially the total failure of BJP in representing the aspirations of Jammu region.
Both the AICC secretaries briefed the meeting about the challenges before the party in the the party shall remain committed firmly to its ideology and principles and represent the genuine aspiration of the people of three region of the State. They said that there is great opportunity for the Congress party to emerge stronger in view of the total betrayal and failure of BJP to fulfill the commitments and come up to the expectations of the people of this region. This has left BJP totally exposed in the eyes of the people and Congress feels the pulse of people and would move forward on right path.
Mir briefed the meeting about the experiences in the recent electoral exercises and the plan to gear up activities at Blocks and Districts. He said that party units would be geared up for the future elections which are quite near and asked the party leaders to fan out in their respective areas and highlight issues and problems of people at various levels.
Prominent those present include Tara Chand- ex-DyCM, former ministers Mula Ram, Sham Lal Sharma, Raman Bhalla, GM Saroori, Jugal Kishore, R S Chib, senior leaders -Balwan Singh, Prakash Sharma, Naresh Gupta, Balbir Singh (MLC), Kanta Bhan, Ravinder Sharma, Vikramaditya Singh, Rajnish Sharma, AS Micky, Yogesh Sawhney, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Manmohan Singh, GL Chalotra, S. Manjit Singh, KC Bhagat, Ashok Sharma, Ashok Dogra, Shivdev Singh, Prof Gharu Ram Bhagat, Vikram Malhotra, YV Sharma, Namrata Sharma, Shah Nawaz Choudhary, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pranav Shagotra, Udhay Bhanu Chib, Neeraj Kundan, MK Bhardwaj, Aslam Goni, Parveen Akhter, Vandana Sharma, Dr Rasheed Choudhary, Hari Singh Chib, Mohinder Parihar and others.