STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and AICC General Secretary, Ghulam Nabi Azad today visited the residence of Darshan Lal Raina at Brij Nagar to offer condolences to family.
Raina passed away on Thursday after brief illness and was cremated yesterday afternoon.
Azad arrived from New Delhi by morning flight and went straight to the residence of Darshan Raina and offered deep condolences to the family over the untimely demise of veteran leader. He was accompanied by several senior leaders of the party.
Azad described Raina as a dedicated Congressman and pillar of the party who served the people of the area throughout his life.
Meanwhile a condolence meeting was held at PCC HQ here today which was attended by senior Congress leaders, functionaries of PCC and DCC Jammu. The meeting deeply condoled sad and untimely demise of Darshan Raina. The speakers paid rich tributes to Raina and recalled his contributions in the party and in the service of people. They expressed sympathies with bereaved family members. Two minutes silence was also observed to pray for peace to the departed soul.
The meeting was presided over by Anil Chopra-President DCC Jammu Urban and attended by Raman Bhalla, Kanta Bhan, Jahangir Mir Dy. Chairman LC, Ravinder Sharma, Rajnish Sharma, Yogesh Sawhney, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Thakur Manmohan Singh, Namrata Sharma, Kuldeep Raj Verma, B.S Sambyal, Krishan Lal Gupta, Gurdarshan Singh, Shashi Sharma, Thomas Khokher, Manjeet Singh Jatt, Dr Kanwal Singh, Gurmeet Singh Sudan, Ch. Sukhdev Singh, Saleem Naz Mughal, Inayatullah Rather, B.B Gupta, Madan Lal Malagar, P.S Chouhan, Dr. R.K Khajuria, Jai Singh, Rachpal Singh, J.L Koul, Jatin Bashisht, Gourav Chopra, Panjeet Arora, Asha Mehra, Pawan Dev Singh, Vijay Sharma, Joginder Singh Chib, Madan Gopal Verma, Bodh Raj Sharma, Jai Dev Sharma, Jatinder Singh Dumpa,
Dewan Chand, Gopal Sharma, Koushal Sambyal and Guttam Kumar.
