STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Several prominent people on Thursday joined Congress under the leadership of Working President JKPCC Raman Bhalla.
Welcoming them into the party fold Bhalla said that people of Jammu and Kashmir were expressing their pain and anguish against the BJP Govt and its anti- people polices.
Their induction in to the party would further strengthen the Congress party in J&K. Subedar Banarsi Lal along with his supporters join Congress.
Speaking on the occasion, Bhalla said that the unprecedented price rise and record unemployment especially in Jammu and Kashmir, the Modi government has utterly failed to bring the prices under control. The common man is suffering due to unprecedented prices of all essential commodities and unreasonable taxes.
He said that Congress party is the only truly secular, democratic and progressive force which can keep Jammu and Kashmir on the path of peace, progress and harmony while the forces of hatred would create wedge in the society and the regions for vote bank politics.
Bhalla while welcoming them to the Congress party, extensively dealt with emerging political scenario in Jammu & Kashmir, where Congress party is fast emerging as the only choice of people because of its progressive, democratic and secular policies.
Bhalla appealed the people to look back to the history of traditional harmony, peace and secularism and reject the forces of exploitation and hatred for a better future, for which Congress is the truly secular, democratic, nationalist and progressive force to lead the people of Jammu and Kashmir on the path progress and prosperity alongwith rest of the country.