Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 20: Saying that Jammu interest is sacrosanct and uncompromisable, National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana today reiterated that any attempt to trample this sacred trust of the people will be resisted tooth and nail.
“Letting down Jammuties has cost the self-styled Messiahs the most with people sending a terse message that their sentiments can’t be exploited anymore”, Rana said while welcoming new entrants into the National Conference at a brief function here this afternoon.
He lamented that the Jammu region’s interest was hugely compromised in recent years, with the so-called protectors turning perpetrators and inflicting scars on public psyche. Under the mistaken belief of fooling the people, they actually got exposed for their ill-will and vested interest. Jammu suffered the most during their nightmarish partnership with a party they opposed for about a decade ferociously, he said and referred to injustice meted out in employment, development and implementation of various schemes. The entire development exercise undertaken over the years got fractured due to the self-centric approach of the perpetrators of injustice, he maintained.
The Provincial President said that appreciating the sensitivities of different regions and sub-regions, National Conference has formulated a road-map in the format of regional autonomy that envisions equal opportunities of progress and development for all, irrespective of caste, region, sub-regions and religion. This is because secularism has been the bedrock of the party which has survived most turbulent times during the past seven decades, he added.
Speaking on the occasion, former minister Surjeet Singh Slathia slammed those playing mute to grave injustice meted out to youth because self interest was dearer to them than the Jammu interest
He observed that ignoring the Jammu interest tantamount to insulting the self-respecting people, who have always been large hearted. He said the time is not far when the people will make the exploiters accountable for their sins committed against Jammu.
Senior leader Advocate Muzaffar Khan welcomed the new entrants, hoping their dynamism will help further reinvigorating the National Conference at grass roots level
Rana and other senior leaders said that the National Conference is the only destination for public spirited people, who want to serve humanity by dint of their determination to further the legitimate cause of the people.
They welcomed Ph. D Scholar Dr Rizwan uz Zama Zoology from Gool ,Dr Majid from Rajouri . Dheeraj Sharma, D . K Sharma, Arif Hamid Moazzam Iqbal, Nashad Ahmed,Liaquat, Akram Khan,. Saqib Rafi, Shahbaz Wani, Bihari Lal Bushman, Nawaz Ahmed, Muhammad Akeel.
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