dogra herald bureau
Jammu, Nov 14
Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress paid rich tributes to the first prime minister Pt Jawahar lal Nehru and lauded his historical role, far- sightedness and efforts towards the rejection of two nation theory on Jammu & Kashmir leading to the accession of state with India.
Several functions at Districts and Block level were held all over J&K. An impressive function was organized by the District congress committee Jammu Urban led by Th. Manmohan Singh at PCC HQ, which was presided over by JKPCC working President Raman Bhalla and attended by Sr. Vice President & Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma , PCC Vice Presidents Ved Mahajan, Rajnish Sharma (Treasurer), Pranav Shagotra, PCC General Secretaries Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, Narinder Gupta, Amrit Bali, Suresh Kumar Dogra, S. Gurmet Singh, Satish Sharma, Thomas Khokhar, PCC Secretaries Sanjeev Sharma(Panda), Rajveer Singh, Hoshyar Singh, Michael Wazir, Dwarka Choudhary, Vijay Shastri Dr. Ramakant Khajuria, Pritam Singh, Sonu Dogra, Ram Prakash Magotra, Vijay Singh Chib, Atul Sharma, Sat Pal Spolia, Com. Gurmeet Singh, Anil Kumar, Pawan Sharma, Camres David and other DCC and BCC functionaries. Paying floral tributes, Raman Bhalla recalled the great contributions of Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru in the freedom struggle and in laying the foundations of free India as a strong democratic, secular and progressive nation, for which he is rightly known as the architect of modern India.
Bhalla denounced attempts by the ruling party and it’s sister concerns to distort the historical facts about the role played by the great stalwart in the freedom struggle and in the building of modern India especially his historical contributions, in bringing Jammu and Kashmir ,into the Indian fold at the crucial times.
Ravinder Sharma in his address described Pt. Nehru as the tallest leaders of Modern times after Mahatma Gandhi. He said that contribution of Pt. Nehru to bring the state of J&K to the fold of Indian nation can’t be forgotten and there is need to expose the distortions being made by certain forces for vested political interests. He also lamented those who try to belittle the contributions of Pt. Nehru as leader of freedom struggle and as leader of the nation, who not only shaped the future of India but played the very vital rule in the world politics and was instrumental in the creation of third order in the world in the shape of NAM which emerged as a powerful block in the global politics.
Th. Manmohan Singh while paying floral tribute described Pt. Nehru as the tallest leader of his time, whose contribution in the freedom struggle and as first prime minister can never be forgotten.
