Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 10: Within days of being entrusted with the responsibility of handling the affairs of the party, Chief Minister and working president of National Conference, Omar Abdullah, today had nearly two hours long interaction with the Provincial Working Committee of the party Jammu province and chalked out a schedule to personally interact with the workers at all levels. He also advised the party Ministers, Legislators and senior leaders to focus on every nook and corner of the State to ascertain people’s grievances and get the same resolved.
According to the sources in the party, in nearly two hour long meeting, Mr Omar preferred to devote maximum time to elicit views of the Provincial Working Committee members about the party activities at various levels instead of making long speech to them.
He confined his address to only 15 minutes wherein he divulged his plans to interact with the workers at all levels to hear their views regarding the functioning of the party and the steps required to be taken to further strengthen party base in every nook and corner of the State. He also received feed-back from the party leaders about the functioning of the Coalition Government.
Describing National Conference as a fortress of public aspiration, communal amity, solidarity and equitable development of all regions of the State, he asked the party rank and file to render selfless service to the people to mitigate their difficulties and help Coalition Government to carry forward development agenda with firmness and determination.
“National Conference has always stood for the cause of people and history bears testimony to the struggle spearheaded by it for empowerment of common man. Our endeavour in this direction would continue”, he said.
Stating that National Conference and Congress share the ideology of secular democracy and equitable development and both the parties stand for solidarity and holistic development of the State irrespective of any consideration of creed, caste, region, religion or colour, Mr Omar stressed the need for strengthening the coalition to achieve the higher goals in the process of development and restoration of permanent peace.
He advised the party workers to disseminate the people-friendly initiatives taken by the Government during last three years at grass root level. “This is the collective responsibility of one and all to ensure that common masses are made aware about the revolutionary steps taken by the Government”, Mr Omar said, adding “this is also imperative to counter the false propaganda being launched by the Opposition parties”.
Advising the party Ministers and Legislators to focus even on those areas from where the party has no representation in the Government, he said, “you have to highlight the public requirements on development fronts at all fora and at the Government level so that these are properly focused and addressed”.
The working president of the National Conference said that he has formulated a schedule to interact with workers at all levels to hear their views regarding the functioning of the party. “I have asked the provincial presidents and others to finalize meetings with the workers at district level. These meetings will follow the interaction with the party cadre at block and village level”, he added.
He stressed the need for strengthening National Conference at all levels and asked the workers to contribute in this direction. “You represent the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Your glorious past and shining present is with you. You have to work to ensure prosperous future for the State and its people”, he told the workers.
Earlier, Provincial president, Rattan Lal Gupta and all the District presidents of J&K National Conference Jammu province highlighted the issues of the party workers.
Minister for Industries, Surjeet Singh Slathia, Political Advisor to Chief Minister, Devender Singh Rana, MLCs Ajay Sadhotra, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardy, Javed Rana, Master Noor Hussain, MLAs Aijaz Jan, Bimla Luthra, Sajjad Ahmed Kitchloo, Mohammad Aslam Goni, Vijay Lakshmi Dutta, Harbans Singh, Haji Mohammad Hussain, Brij Mohan Sharma, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Qazi Jalal Din, Ram Paul, Mushtaq Bukhari, Mirza Abdul Rashid, Mohd Aslam Khan, Gh. Haider Malik, Surinder Singh Bunty, Jugal Mahajan and other provincial committee office bearers were present in the meeting.
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