STATE TIMES NEWS
KISHTWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday suffered a big blow as its two dozen workers joined Congress Party in presence of state Congress Vice President and MLA Inderwal G.M Saroori.
In a function held here, two dozen BJP workers joined the Congress Party and expressed to resolve to work for further strengthening the party in Batwari-Chatroo belt of Inderwal.
Asserting that Congress stands guarantee to preserving and maintaining time tested secular ethos and regional unity of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, Saroori made a clarion call to all those believing in unique characteristics of the State to get united under its banner to fight divisive forces.
“Times have proven that flaring up regional and religious passions cannot take a homogenous state like Jammu and Kashmir anywhere”, Saroori said while welcoming Chowdhary Ibrahim, Chowdhary Shafi, Noor Din, Chowdhary Qasim, Nazir Ahmed, Fareed Ahmed, Manzoor Ahmed, Khursheed Ahmed, Chowdhary Noor Din, Rameez Ahmed, Mohd Shafi, Mohd Aslam, Chowdhary Ibrahim, Chowdhary Jamma, Chowdhary Karam Din, Chowdhary Habib, Chowdhary Faqira, Ghulam Mohd, Abdul Wahid, Chowdhary Habib and others in the party fold.
Saroori said that polarization in politics may earn certain short term gains to politicians with myopic interests but in the long run such tendencies do not only boomerang but also prove detrimental to the larger interests of the people and the State.
“This has been proven by the opportunistic alliance of PDP-BJP which at end of the day has plunged Jammu and Kashmir into unprecedented political uncertainty”, he said adding that if the two parties, which joined hands on the premise of North Pole South Pole could not pull together for just two years, how could they steer the sensitive state like Jammu and Kashmir to peace and progress.
Saroori hoped that their joining into party fold, the Congress party would be further strengthened in Batwari Chatroo area at grass roots level.
Congress leaders Chowdhary Noor Din, Abdul Gani, Bashir Ahmed, Mohd Mateen Butt, Mohd Aslam, Khalid Hussain Sheikh and others also greeted and welcomed the new entrants on joining Congress.
