Excelsior Correspondent
BANIHAL, Jan 10: Stating that Congress Party will emerge stronger in the country and in J&K, Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Vikar Rasool Wani cautioned the people of sinister designs of the BJP and its offshoots, who are out to divide people for political mileage and electoral gains.
Wani also sought peoples’ overwhelming support to upcoming ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Jammu and Kashmir, terming Yatra a hope for all the people.
He was addressing a largely attended public meeting at Khari and Ramsu in Banihal area of Ramban district today in which senior Party leaders, DDC Members, BDCs, Sarpanchs and Panchs participated.
Addressing the meeting, JKPCC president cautioned the people about the sinister designs of the BJP and its offshoots and said attempts are being made to further mislead and create confusion aiming to divide people on certain lines in J&K, as that, BJP has realized that its plans of exploiting people for electoral gains will face humiliating defeat.
“The ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi has infused confidence among the people, the day is not far when the BJP will be wiped out for the divisive and wrong policies adopted by it towards people since it has assumed power at Centre,” Wani added an said BJP Govt has pushed the country towards darkness still it is making tall claims on various counts, which is based on lies and deceit.
JKPCC chief termed Yatra as the most significant movement in the country and said it (BJY) is against the assault on democratic institutions, rising unemployment, unprecedented price hike, religious and divisive politics which is harmful to the very idea of India.
Wani appealed all like-minded secular parties in general and people of Jammu and Kashmir in particular to join upcoming Bharat Jodo Yatra with overwhelming majority to make it successful in the larger interest of people of J&K, who have been pushed towards darkness on every count, besides abandoning them of democratic rights by the BJP Govt aiming to fulfil its political agenda, he rued.
DDC Members Imtiyaz Ahmad Khanday & Bashir Ahmad Naik, former NSUI president Feroz Ahmad Khan, BDC Chairman Ramsu Shafeeq Ahmad Katoch, BDC Chairman Ukhral Karleep Singh Bali also addressed the gathering.