Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, Dec 11,
Congress today held a peaceful protest demonstration against the citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) terming it against the spirit of the constitution and basic idea of India and launched a strong protest against the remarks of Home Minister Amit Shah blaming Congress for the division of the Country on two nation theory.
Led by senior functionaries of party former Ministers and Leaders of Frontal Wings, a large number of Congress leaders & workers including functionaries of PCC, DCC, frontal wings of the party held a protest demonstration carrying play cards opposing the bill and raising slogans against the Home Minister for his misleading remarks at Shaheedi Chowk in front of Congress HQ.
They termed the bill against the basic structure of the Constitution and the basic idea of India and said that this will weaken the unity and harmony in the Country. They blamed that Home Minister’s remarks blaming Congress for the division of the country on religious lines is misleading and distortion of history.
Prominent senior leaders of the party who participated included Formers Ministers & Vice Presidents PCC Shri Raman Bhalla, Shri Mula Ram & G.M. Saroori , Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma , General Secretary Shah Mohd Choudhary, DCC Presidents Vikram Malhotra, Sdr. Manjeet Singh, Ex-MLAs Ashok Sharma (Coordinator AICC Vichar Manch), Indu Pawar (President Mahila Congress), Shiv Kumar Sharma (President INTUC) Udaybhanu Chib (President PYC), Rajesh Sadotra (President Seva Dal), President Professional Congress Y.V. Sharma, Chairman Legal Cell K.K. Pangotra , Suresh Dogra (Chairman OBC), Hira Lal Pandita (Chairman KP Cell) , Senior Advocate Mohinder Bhardwaj, Vinod Sharma, Convenor RTI Cell Advocate Bhavishya Sudan, Vice Chairman Minority Cell Sdr. Gurdarshan Singh, Convenor Transport Cell Sdr. Gajan Singh, Secretary PCC Shashi Sharma, Neeraj Gupta, Sanjeev Panda, Subash Bhagat, Mohd Sultan Mandoo, Dr. R.K. Khajuria, Corporators Dwarka Choudhary Kamal Singh, Gourav Chopra, Ritu Chdhary, Sobat Ali, Mohi-ud-din & Pritam Singh, Iqbal Dar, S. Harvinder Singh Mehta, Ch. Sukh Dev Singh, Satish Sharma, Sandeep Dogra,Vijay Sharma, Shadi Lal Pandita, Tirath Ram Bhagat, P.S. Chouhan, Varinder Singh, Jyoti Vaid, Amrit Bali, Suresh Sharma, Om Prakash, Jatinder Singh, R.P. Magotra, R.C. Sakwal, Balbir Singh, Camres David , Parshotam Mehra , Sanjay Manhas, Parveet Singh, Balvinder Singh, Jagjit Singh, Vimaljit Singh, \Janmeet Singh and others.
Addressing the gathering Shri Raman Bhalla attacked the bill being discriminatory and against the basic philosophy of the foundation of our country on secular basis. The demand and creation of Pakistan by Jinnah was opposed by Congress led by Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Nehru, Dr. Ambedkar and others but the extremist forces divided the Country on communal and religious lines. The party is opposed to any such attempt to create division in the society for vote bank politics. The party believes that this kind of approach will threaten the basic unity and harmony in our country and would weaken the nation. He said that the BJP is trying to distort history and mislead the nation about the freedom struggle and the contribution of Congress party in keeping the country together and strong on the slogan of unity in diversity.
Briefing media persons on the occasion PCC Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma strongly criticized the remarks of the Home Minister Shri Amit Shah in Lok Sabha blaming the Congress party for the division of the country in total contradiction to the historical facts. He said that Congress party led by Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, Maulana Azad and others tooth and nail opposed the demand of two nation theory on religious lines which was raised by Muslim League led by Mr. Jinnah and patronized by the British and supported by some extremists right wing forces of the time. The BJP should desist from misleading the nation with a view to malign the Congress for political interests.
