Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, July 27
JK Congress today joined the nationwide call of the party to hold protest against BJP led Centre Govt. over the issue of $Rajasthan and termed it as continued interference in the constitutional scheme of things and settled traditions, to topple the elected governments.
The prominent Congress leaders held a simple protest in Jammu as well as in Srinagar City to join the nationwide call of the party, while following the guidelines as required.
Led by JKPCC Chief G.A. Mir senior leaders held a symbolic protest outside Congress HQ Jammu, carrying play cards “ SAVE DEMOCRACY”, “SAVE CONSTITUTION- SAVE NATION” and raised slogans against BJP and Centre Govt. over the attempts to topple duly elected Rajasthan Govt. and demanded that the house be summoned to prove majority in the assembly.
Speaking to media persons JKPCC Chief Shri G.A. Mir said that the BJP has been working on the agenda of opposition Mukt Bharat, especially Congress Mukt Bharat, as the elected Governments are being toppled, one after another, by misuse of power by the Centre Govt. He said that it is insult of the mandate of the people and against all Constitutional and democratic norms. BJP is indulging in unprincipled politics and misusing power and influencing the office of Governor. Urging the people to rise and stands up for safeguarding constitution and saving democracy, Shri Mir termed these tactics of BJP as undemocratic and unconstitutional and against the mandate of the people and against all democratic norms.
Former Minister & Vice President PCC Shri Raman Bhalla lashed out at the BJP Govt. at the Centre for its total anti-democratic approach and misuse of power to dislodge the Congress governments in the state one after the other after having failed to win the mandate of people in the state. Referring to Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and now Rajasthan, Mr. Bhala termed it as a naked drama of misuse of power by the BJP which has put a democracy in danger and against all norms and traditions laid down in the Constitution and strongly condemned such tactics.
Other prominent leaders present include Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, Co-treasurer Rajnish Sharma, General Secretary Thakur Manmohan Singh, Former Dy. Chairman LC Arvinder Singh Micky, Former Minister Gurbachan Kumari Rana, Former MLA/MLC Th. Balbir Singh, Krishan Lal Gupta, Corporators Sobat Ali-, Mohi-ud-din, Ritu Choudhary, Sain Abdul Rshid, Subash Bhagat, Col. Swarn Singh, Neeeraj Gupta, Rajan Sharma, S. Gajan Singh, Dr. Ramankant Khajuria, Ms. Jyoti Vaid, Pawan Dev Singh, Varnder Singh Manhas, , Uttam Singh CHib, Parshotam Mehra, Suni Sharma, Camres David Babloo, Anand Gandotra, Anoop Gupta, Titus Gill, Anil Sharma, Sushant Gupta, Rajkumar Sodi, Deepandhu Bhardwaj, Ajay Mehra Ms. Parvinder Kour, Ch. Bishan, Ch. Chamail Singh, Atul Sharma, Chander Sheikher and others.
Similar protest was held at Srinagar party HQ Maulana Azad Road Srinagar raising slogans against the BJP and Centre Govt. They criticized strongly the undemocratic and unconstitutional tactics of BJP led Centre Govt. to topple the elected governments in the states led by Congress party continuously. They termed it as danger to the Constitution of the Country and murder of democracy. Abdul Ghani Khan, Shameema, Mir Ruvais, Ghulam Mohd Sheikh, Amir Rasool, Bbasharat bin Qadir, Raja Misger, Zulfqar Qureshi, Yousf Sultan were the prominent in the protest.
