JAMMU, Dec 19:Thousands of Congress workers and activists alongwith senior leaders of the party held peaceful sit in dharnas across the state at state and district headquarters of the party to express solidarity with the Congress high command and lodge protest over the policing of political vendata of BJP against the Congress leadership and opposition in the country.
At Jammu, hundreds of Congress workers assembled outside the PCC HQ., at Shaheedi Chowk Jammu and held a sit in dharna which was led by PCC Chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir and joined by senior functionaries of PCC, legislators, former ministers and most of the prominent leaders besides frontal organizations like Mahila Congress, Youth Congress, Seva Dal, NSUI and INTUC and District Congress Committee.
The leaders and workers raised slogans in favour of Congress party and the leadership of Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. They also criticized the policies and programmes of the Modi government and BJP, accusing it of indulging the political vendata against the leadership of Congress and other opposition.
At district headquarters across the state similar gatherings and dharnas were held with District Presidents and prominent leaders of the party joining the peaceful solidarity shows with Congress leadership in the country and opposing the policies of the BJP and Modi Government.
At Srinagar, headquarter also similar gathering was held where large number of workers assembled alongwith senior leaders of PCC and held a strong show of solidarity in favour of Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi, while at district headquarters in Kashmir, Leh and Kargil also similar peaceful dharnas were held by the District Congress leaders and prominent workers joining the gathering to show solidarity with Congress high command.
Addressing the gathering PCC Chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir accused the BJP & Modi government of indulging in false and malicious propaganda against the Congress leadership in the cournty with a view to weaken and malign the image of the Congress party. He criticized the political vendata of the BJP and said that the entire rank & file of the Congress party is solidly behind the leadership of Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to fight against the wrong policies of the Modi government.
Mr. Mir said that Congress party and its leadership has faced many situation during 130 years of its history and it would continue to serve the interests of each and every section of its society in the best possible manner, underttered by the factics of the forces who are opposed to the secular and progressive policies and programmes of the Congress party and its leadership.
Senior leaders who addressed and attended included S/Shri Sham Lal Sharma-Sr. Vice President, Tara Chand-(former Dy. CM); Madan Lal Sharma (Ex-MP), Mohammad Sharief Niaz; Nawang Rigzin Jora-MLA, Jugal Kishore-MLC, Aijaz Ahmed Khan-MLA, Asgar Ali Karbalie-MLA, Mula Ram, Raman Bhalla; Ghulam Nabi Monga-MLC; Rani Gargi Billoria-MLC; Kanta Bhan; Rajnish Sharma, Ravinder Sharma, Sdr.Manjit Singh, Vikram Malhotra, Manmohan Singh, Shah Nawaz Choudhary; Ex-MLA’s Shiv Dev Singh, Prakash Sharma & Swran Lata; Anil Chopra, Indu Pawar-(Mahila Congress), Pranav Shagotra-PYC, Balwinder Singh Sambyal-(Seva Dal), Shiv Kumar Sharma-(INTUC), Neeraj Kundan-(NSUI); Hari Singh Chib, Hira Lal Pandita; Vinod Mishra, Subash Bhagat, Krishan Lal Gupta, S.S.Shingari, M.K.Bhardwaj, ; Ashok Dogra, Rajni Bala, Shamsher Singh Chib, Shashi Sharma, Thomas Khokhar, Soba Singh, Manjeet Singh Jatt, Anuradha Andotra, Narinder Sharma, Pawan Singh, Ashwani Puri, Neeraj Gupta, Surinder Gupta, Nadim Sharief Niaz, Sanjeev Sharma and others.
At Kishtwar protest dharna was led by Ghulam Mohammad Saroori-MLA and Vice President, while Abdul Majid Wani-Ex-Minister and Naresh Gupta-MLC led the dharna at Doda. Shri Vikar Rasool Wani-MLA and Arun Singh Raju-President DCC led the dharna at Ramban, while similar dharna were held at Udhampur & Reasi led by District Congress Committee presidents and local leaders.
At Rajouri a peaceful protest dharna was led by Shri Shabir Ahmed Khan-Ex-Minister, Ch. Sain Rasheed-President DCC, Iqbal Malik, Lovely Gupta, Lalit Mahajan, Sushil Shamra, Pushpinder Gupta, Iqbal Shawal & others.
Similarly at Kathua a peaceful dharna was held led by Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma-Ex-Minister; Ex-MLC Subash Gupta-President DCC, Girdhari Lal Chalotra-Ex-MLA, Naresh Sharma, Pankaj Dogra, Nirdosh Sharma, Kulbir Singh, Narinder Khajuria and others.
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