Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 18: PCC Chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir has asked the party cadres to gear up for the forthcoming elections to the ULBs in the State.
While chairing a meeting of senior leaders and functionaries of PCC today to review the preparations for the ongoing process for the conduct of elections to Municipal Corporation Jammu/ ULBs, Mir stressed the party leaders to take all possible measures to further gear up the organizational activities in the State.
The PCC chief stressed upon the need to have a coordinated effort to expose the misdeeds of the BJP before the public and also organize the grass root workers to give inputs with regard to selection of best candidates of the party. He also said those found indulging in any kind of anti-party activities would not be spared and candidates with their loyalty and dedication towards the party and ideology would be chosen for the party tickets based on inputs from the party cadres.
Responding to the concern of former Minister Mula Ram regarding the deliberate attempt to reserve wards for SCs with less or inadequate population of SC in the said wards, Mir said that party has already submitted objections to the election authority with regard to the irregularities and abnormalities in the reservation and rotation of wards in the corporation and other ULBs.
Mr Mir said that the Congress has the credit of establishing the Panchayat Raj system throughout the country and it was the result of great struggle and efforts of Congress that the 73rd and 74th amendments were incorporated in the State laws to further empower the Panchayats and ULBs which are basic institutions of democracy. He said that now the ULBs and Panchayats bodies would be constituted in accordance with the all silent features of the 73rd and 74th amendment of the Constitution, which would usher into an era of setting up of fully empowered Panchayat Raj system in the State.
He asked the party leaders and workers to fan out in their respective areas and maintain close rapport with the people, who were feeling cheated by the false slogans of BJP in Jammu Region. He said that people are suffering due to the derailment of ration system in the State.
The meeting was also attended by CLP leader Rigzin Jora, Dy CLP Leader Ch Aijaz Ahmed Khan, senior leaders Mula Ram, Raman Bhalla, Kanta Bhan, Ravinder Sharma, Yogesh Sawhney, Vikram Malhotra, Manmohan Singh, Namrata Sharma, Anil Chopra, Surinder Singh Shingari, Indu Pawar, Pranav Shagotra and Neeraj Kundan.
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