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JAMMU: JKPCC Working President, Raman Bhalla on Monday claimed that no one can erase it from the memory of any Indian that it was none other than late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was the first to recognize the political might wielded by the poor yet languishing at the bottom of so literally moved by the prevalence of poverty in this country that she decided to showcase poverty as the most lethal political weapon during the 1971 General Election while giving the clarion call of ‘Garibi Mitao’.
This was observed by former Minister while interacting with people of Qasim Nagar, Bahu Fort organized by Bunty and Gopal.
Prominent among others those present on the occasion include Jatinder Chib, Deewan Chand, Latish Sharma, Mulakh Raj, Meenu Jamwal, Sumitra, Sahil Shavotra, Bitta, Gagan, Paras Ram Harvirnder Kour besides others.
Speaking on the occasion, Bhalla said that since then, inclusion of poor became the guiding deity to be installed in the middle by every political party in each as the most essential ritual in every political discourse particularly when elections came into sight. It has been the most outstanding political achievement of the Congress for having established a revolutionary trend in this country.
The legacy of the Congress in arena of its missionary zeal in service of poor downtrodden, and those living sequestered life or the untouchables managing to keep both ends meet living on the skid row of villages, will remain entrenched deep in the psyche of Indians for generations to come, added Bhalla.
Bhalla said on the other hand BJP government has utterly failed to fulfill basic necessities of common man in J&K. He said BJP has dismayed and disappointed their respective electorate besides exposing their hallow and false commitment to their slogans always used by them to hoodwink the people.
He said that the governance failures writ large in almost every field, adding to the miseries of each and every section of the society. The government has failed to ensure delivery at the basic levels like availability of power, health, education sector & unemployment besides rehabilitation of affected people and the farmers. The employees of different categories including teachers, daily wagers, casual and need based workers and other such categories of people are regularly seen on protests for their just and genuine demands. This kind of situation has disappointed every common man who are already facing the brunt of sky rocketing prices of all essential commodities and items of daily use.
He said that Congress party is the only unifying force which would fight for the rights of the people of J&K and appealed party workers to be united and vigilant to expose the BJP government in J&K and protect the policies and programmes which were initiated by the Congress for the welfare of the pluralistic, poor & downtrodden sections of the society for which Congress has always remained on the fore-front since independence.
Caption Additional DGP Armed J&K, S.J.M Gillani and SSP Mahmood Ahmed decorating Sajad Hussain and Javid Ahmad with Ranks on their promotion as DySP and HC respectively.