Jammu, Aug 20: The 71st Birth Anniversary of former Prime Minister Late Rajiv Gandhi Ji was celebrated by the Congress party through out the state by organizing several functions. The main function in Jammu was held at PCC HQ Shaheedi Chowk Jammu.The function was presided over by Shri Ghulam Ahmed Mir, President PCC and attended by functionaries and senior leaders of PCC. DCC Jammu and frontal organizations of the party, contesting candidates and district presidents of Jammu Province.
Speaking on the occasion Shri G.A. Mir described Shri Rajiv Gandhi as the architect of Panchayat Raj System in the Country. He fulfilled the dreams of great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi to devolve powers of planning and development to the grass root institutions of democracy, so that the people shape their own destiny as per their needs. He translated the concept of participatory democracy at the grass root levels.
Mir referred to number of achievements of Shri Gandhi during his leadership and said that country emerged as leader of the World in Information Technology due to vision of Rajiv Ji for the youth, whom he gave a direction for the challenges of 21st Century, which showed his farsightedness. The opposition parties especially BJP leaders had failed to match his vision of Computer and IT and criticized him at that time, he regretted. The time proved that his vision of IT brought a revolution in the day to day life of common people and economic progress of this country.
PCC Chief said that Shri Rajiv Gandhi had taken a historical decision and lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years in order to ensure that the youth of the country also participate in the democratic systems and take lead in politics to serve the nation with young ideas.The other speakers in their speeches recalled the contributions of the Late Rajiv Gandhi and remembered his achievements in various spheres during his short stint in politics. They referred to his efforts to achieve peace in various parts of the Country during his period through dialogue and settled various issues and situations confronting the Country. He was a messenger of peace & harmony and they asked partymen to follow his ideals.
Prominent among those who spoke and attended the function include Shri Sham Lal Sharma- Senior Vice President PCC, Shri Tara Chand Ex-Dy. Chief Minister, (Ex-MPs) Dharam Pal Sharma & Madan Lal Sharma; Sdr. Gurmukh Singh; Shri Raman Bhalla, Shri Mula Ram, Smt. Kanta Bhan (Vice Presidents PCC), Shri Ravinder Sharma-Chief Spokesman PCC; Shri Rajnish Sharma- Co-Treasurer PCC; Jugal Kishore Sharma (MLC); Th. Balwan Singh, Dr. Manohar Lal, Yogesh Sawhney, Shah Mohammad Choudhary, Sdr. Manjit Singh, Manmohan Singh, Vikram Malhotra, Namrata Sharma, Faqir Nath (all General Secretaries PCC); MLAs Mumtaz Ahmed Khan and Ch. Mohammad Akram;
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