JAMMU: Rich tributes were paid to veteran Congress leader, former Deputy Chairman Legislative Council and former District President Congress Jammu (Urban), Chuni Lal Sharma on his 23rd Death Anniversary, in a meeting held at PCC HQ , here on Monday.
Two minutes silence was also observed.
Raman Bhalla (former Minister) Vice President PCC, Anil Chopra- President DCC Jammu (Urban), Krishan Lal Gupta, B.B Gupta, Madan Lal Malagar, Dr. Ramakant Khajuria, Gourav Chopra, Jawaharlal Kaul, Sunil Kumar, Chanchal Popli, Prabha Slathia, Naresh Maini, Pawan Dev Singh, Sanjeev Sharma, Pradeep Bhagat, Babu Singh, Ram Prakash Magotra, Kirti Gupta, Viabhav Mattoo, Sushil Sharma, Suresh Dogra, Camres Davit (Babloo), Pawan Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar and Bimla Slathia and family members of the departed leader were the prominent persons who paid tributes to Chuni Lal Sharma. The leaders, while paying tributes to Chuni Lal, described him as a symbol of simplicity, honesty, humbleness and dedicated Congress leader who in his whole life worked for strengthening the party.
“He fought communal forces to uphold the banner of secularism and socialism,” the leaders added.
They said he (Sharma) was a committed Congressman and worked with devotion to help the poor, downtrodden and neglected sections of the society.
All the speakers stressed for unity in the party and said that the best tributes to Chuni Lal Sharma would be to follow his foot prints and work dedicatedly for strengthening the party, ignoring all differences.