Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU/ SRINAGAR, Dec 12: Rich tribute were paid by the Congress party to GM Sadiq- former Prime Minister and first Chief Minister of J&K and founder of Congress party in J&K, Syed Mir Qasim (former Chief Minister) and G M Mir Lasjan (former Minister) on their death anniversaries today.
The function was presided over by working president PCC Raman Bhalla and attended by senior leaders of PCC, District and Block presidents and Mahila Congress leaders besides frontal wings.
While paying tribute to the veteran leaders the speakers described GM Sadiq as a most honest, secular patriotic and able administrator who gave corruption free and efficient administration to the people of Jammu and Kashmir State. He played an important role to further cement the State-Centre relationship and brought J&K more closer to rest of the country by taking several important and effective Constitutional measures.
They said Sadiq was a revolutionary and most honest leader whose thoughts, policies and programmes are relevant and guiding factors for all the times to come. He was Prime Minister and the first Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and his tenure is remembered even today as an exemplary one in terms of clean and efficient administration. It was GM Sadiq who brought about sixth Constitutional amendment to change the nomenclature of Sader-e-Riyasat to Governor and from Prime Minister to Chief Minister. It was under his leadership the Congress was formally founded in J&K in 1965.
The leaders also remembered the services of former Chief Minister Syed Mir Qasim and GM Mir Lasjan who were also founder members of Congress and described them best administrators who always cared for people and kept their interests above all.
Syed Mir Qasim quit the post of Chief Minister to pave way for the installation of Sheikh Mohd Abdullah as Chief Minister in 1975 following Indira-Sheikh Accord, in the larger interest of nation to strengthen the mainstream politics in Jammu and Kashmir. All three Congress stalwarts remained committed to the secular and democratic principles and ideology of the Congress party.
Prominent among those who paid tribute included Ch Lal Singh (ex-MP), Th Balwan Singh, Ravinder Sharma-chief spokesperson, Yegesh Sawhney, Ved Mahajan, Jahangir Mir, Indu Pawar, YP Kundal, Manmohan Singh , Shabir Ahmed Khan, Ashok Dogra, Shashi Sharma, Narinder Sharma, Suresh Dogra, Vijay Sharma, Ajay Lakhotra, , Ch Hussain Waffa, Parvez Wani, Vinod Khajuria, Riyaaz Bashir Naaz, Sanjeev Panda and others.
In Srinagar, senior Congress leaders led by PCC president T H Karra also paid floral tribute to party veterans G M Sadiq, Syed Mir Qasim and Mir Lasjan in a simple function held at the party office today. The speakers including party veteran Prof Saifuddin Soz, senior leaders Haji Abdul Rashid, Nizamuddin Bhat, Irfan Hafeez, S S Channi and others threw light on the contributions of these party stalwarts.
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