NPP pays homage to Rajiv Gandhi, Lone, Mirwaiz

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 21:  The NPP in a meeting here today paid homage to three leaders including late  Rajiv Gandhi,  Mirwaiz Moulvi Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone of People’s Party who were assassinated by the terrorists on this day, the 21st May.  Mirwaiz of Kashmir was assassinated in his own house on 21st May, 1990 whereas  Rajiv Gandhi the then ex-Prime Minister was assassinated on 1991 in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, Tamil Nadu and A.G. Lone the ex-Minister was blasted in a public meeting while he was paying homage to late Mirwaiz in 2002, on his 12th death anniversary at Srinagar.
Addressing the Panthers Party workers, Prof. Bhim Singh, founder of the JKNPP and human rights activist condemned all kinds of violence and terrorism whether it comes from a uniformed person or from un-uniformed. He said that violence has no place in the society nor this is any solution or resolution of any conflict or problem. He said that democracy provides an opportunity to every individual to choose his representative for the Parliament or for the State Legislature to seek resolution of each problem democratically. He described all the three leaders who were killed on 21st May in Tamil Nadu or in Kashmir as prominent notables whom he (Bhim Singh) knew very personally.
The NPP in a resolution while paying the richest tributes to the three martyrs called on youth of the country to work together for an ultimate revolution which is possible through the ballot and without the use of bullet.