Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 11: Congress has decided to dedicate this year’s Martyrdom Day of former Prime Minister and the architect of Panchayat Raj system in the country, Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, to the Panchayat Raj system in the JKUT and decided to hold an impressive convention in Jammu on that day to sound the ‘Bigul’ for the forthcoming elections to the Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies.
This was announced here today by JKPCC president Vikar Rasool Wani in a meeting of the senior leaders and district presidents besides the representatives of the Panchayat Raj Institutions held at party office Jammu today.
AICC Incharge J&K affairs Rajni Patil, MP and Co-incharge Manoj Yadav shall attend the convention to pay tributes to Rajiv Gandhi and to recall his contributions in various spheres especially in transforming and de-centralizing the democracy to the grass root level through 73rd and 74th Amendment of the Constitution.
Wani announced that the Congress Party shall contest all the forthcoming elections to the Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies with full force and complete preparations to give a befitting electoral defeat to the BJP in Jammu region which has utterly failed to come up to the expectations of the people of the different sections and gave lot of miseries to each and every section of the society.
JKPCC chief said that BJP is running away from the much delayed Assembly elections in UT for fear of backlash and defeat . The people will teach BJP a lesson in all forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir. He asked the incharges of different districts of the party to hold meetings with the representatives of the PRI’s to aggressively prepare for the forthcoming elections .
He said this year’s martyrdom day of Rajiv Gandhi has been dedicated to strengthen the grass root democracy in the UT which has been deprived of democratic rights to elect their Assembly and choose their elected Government in Jammu and Kashmir post 2014.
Former Dy Chief Minister Tara Chand lashed out at the BJP for depriving the people of their basic democratic rights in Jammu and Kashmir. He said full fledged Dogra State has been downgraded arbitrarily and unilaterally depriving the people of their identity and rights and for the past 5 years there is no elected Government after the desolation of the Assembly in 2018.
Senior leaders who attended the meeting include Th Balwan Singh (Ex-MLA), TS Bajwa (Ex-MP), Th Balbir Singh (Ex-MLA), Ravinder Sharma (Ex-MLC), Manmohan Singh, Indu Pawar ( Ex-MLA), Gurbachan Kumari Rana (Ee-Minister), Ved Mahajan (Ex-MLC), Vinod Sharma, MK Bhardwaj, DCC presidents, Corporators, heads of frontal organisations and others.
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