Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 7: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today paid glowing tribute to legendary leader, JKNC founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 41st death anniversary and termed him a man of iron-determination.
While paying rich tributes to Late Abdullah, Party rank and file called him a father figure and political colossus, who helped change Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh from a feudal and colonial society to a free, democratic and secular one.
An inspiring political stalwart, the functionaries said that throughout his political career, he symbolized the aspirations of the Kashmiri people as no single individual could have even dreamt of doing.
“Although rooted in Kashmir, he had attained a national standing with his name becoming synonymous in the minds of countrymen with the socialism, humanism, pluralism, and democracy,” they said.
His political direction to the state in the shape of Naya Kashmir manifesto had an unmistakably socialistic stamp that guaranteed freedom of press, freedom of assembly and meetings. The vision of Late Abdullah, the functionaries held espoused to provide a reasonable standard of living for all people in the state irrespective of their caste, creed, religion and region. The basic agricultural and economic plan would be abolition of landlordism, land to tiller and people’s control over the resources of the state.
“He worked tirelessly, suffered incarcerations throughout for the total redemption of the people in Jammu and Kashmir from abject poverty. He gave a new lease of life to the fear paralyzed people of all the regions of J&K. The first cabinet he headed was insightful of his secular temperament. People like GL Dogra, S Budh Singh, Kushak Bakula and DP Dhar were given important portfolios in the cabinet he headed,” they added.
Among others party general secretary Ali Moh Sagar, Treasurer Shammi Oberoi, Provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani, Tanvir Sadiq, Mohd Akbar Lone, Hasnain Masoodi (MPs), Sharief- Ud- Din Shariq, Ch Mohd Ramzan, Abdul Rahim Rather, Mohammad Shafi Uri, Mian Altaf, Mubarak Gul, Sakina Itoo, Shameema Firdous, Nazir Gurezi, Mir Saifullah, Ajay Sadhotra, Irfan Shah, Sajad Ahmed Kitchloo, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardhy, Mushtaq Guroo, Mudassar Shahmiri, Dr Bashir Ahmed Veeri, Ali Mohammad Dar, Javed Dar, Javed Rana and others joined for paying glowing tributes to Late Sheikh Abdullah.
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