Cong pays tributes to Pt Nehru on his 51st death anniversary

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 27:  Pradesh Congress Committee paid rich tributes to first Prime Minister of the country,  Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on his 51st death anniversary today.
A function in this connection was held at PCC headquarters here in which senior Congress leaders paid rich tributes Pt Jawaharlal Nehru and recalled his great contribution in the freedom struggle of the county to shape up the future policies of the modern India on all fronts.
Senior vice president of the PCC,  Sham Lal Sharma presided over the function while other senior leaders including former Minister Raman Bhalla; general secretaries PCC Dr Manohar Lal Sharma and  Vikram Malhotra; president DCC Jammu (U) Anil Chopra; secretary PCC Neeraj Gupta and  Salman Nizami were also present. The party leaders and other  functionaries while paying tributes  described  Pt Nehru as a great visionary leader who laid sound policies for the future of great nation.
They said the  policies which were framed under Pt Nehru’s stewardship are the guiding principles for this country on all important fields. They said  Nehru laid the sound foundation of independent India as a first Prime Minister. He was one of the tallest leaders of the world under whose stewardship India progressed on all fronts and played a very important role  in the affairs of the world.
They said that the devotion to democracy was one of Nehru’s political principle and the building of a democratic, social and political system was one of his principal objectives. For him, political democracy was a means of solving social problems. He was architect of Non Aligned Movement (NAM),  a third force in the world organization to finish the domination of big powers. Pt  Nehru was an ardent freedom fighter, a competent administrator, a successful planner, a visionary thinker,  an author and world statesman. They said that Pt Nehru provided political stability to the establishment of Indian democracy.  His thoughts, policies and programmes are relevant and guiding factors for all the times to come. He also laid thrust upon the need for the Congress party to regularly review its role to different situations which emerge from time to time.
Prominent among others who paid tributes included  Sukh Dev Singh, Madan Lal Malagar, Dr Ramakant Khajuria, Pawan Dev Singh, Kirti Gupta, Gourav Chopra, MM Sharma,  Parshotam Kumar, Kartar Singh, Bodh Raj Sharma, Abdul Rashid, Anand Kishore Gandotra,  Govind Singh and Mohinder Lal.