Jammu, November 23, 2019: Hundreds of Congress workers today took out a strong protest demonstration in Jammu against the flawed economic policies of Modi Govt. leading to unprecedented price hike, large scale unemployment and overall economic slowdown besides lodging its protest over the arbitrary action of disbanding of J&K State into UT and over all threat to democratic system in the Country.
Led by JKPCC Chief Shri G.A. Mir, all senior leaders of party including former ministers, legislators, PCC and DCC functionaries and leaders of frontal wings of the party marched from Congress HQ Shahidi Chowk up to DC Office, carrying banners and play cards and raising slogans against the BJP Government highlighting unprecedented price hike, rising unemployment, overall economic crisis facing the country besides demanding restoration of statehood for J&K with constitutional guarantees for land and jobs to the local youths and lodging strong protest against the arbitrary unconstitutional and undemocratic methods being adopted by the BJP Government at the Centre.
A large number of Congress workers and activists of different frontal wings like Mahila Congress, Youth Congress, Seva Dal, NSUI, INTUC, leaders of various districts including Corporators assembled at Shahidi Chowk and marched to DC Office Jammu where a memorandum was submitted by PCC Chief along with Senior Leaders to the President of India through District Administration.
Addressing the gathering Shri G.A. Mir lashed out at the BJP Government for the worst kind of economic situation and slow down in the country due to the flawed economic policies like demonetization and disoriented implementation of the GST and other such moves leading to over all economic crisis in the country. He said that the GDP growth is lowest for the last six years, new private investment have touched lowest of the sixteen years, the NPA of Bank is over 8 lac crores and there were around 25 thousand cases of Bank fraud during BJP regime involving 1,74,255 crores. The state of economic mess is evident from the fact that the BJP Government is now tapping the emergency reserve of RBI meant to be used in times of war or other grave emergencies . A total of 3 Lac and 89 thousand crores have been transferred from RBI reserves to the Govt. and the RBI has started to sell its gold reserves in the open market.
He said that the Country is facing joblessness and unemployment of the records 45 years high as per official data. The Agriculture sector is one of the worst hit and the farmers of the country are worst affected due to the wrong policies of Modi Govt. which is giving slogans of doubling the income of farmers. He said a grave financial emergency is knocking at our doors and the BJP Govt. is indulging in hollow slogans and false chest beating regarding the economic situation.
Referring to the situation of Jammu and Kashmir, PCC Chief lashed out at the arbitrary manner in which a historic state has been disbanded, divided and downgraded to the level of UT in a most undemocratic and unconstitutional manners and the continued restrictions of various kinds on the main stream political parties and their leaders in the largest democracy of the world. He said that people want restoration of full statehood with constitutional guarantees to safe guards the rights to the land and jobs to the youth at the earliest.
He referred to the undemocratic action of installation of BJP Govt. in Maharashtra and termed it as a murder of democratic values for the lust of power by adopting all sorts of unfair and foul means by the BJP as a result the democratic system is in danger in the Country. He said that it is a dangerous trend for the country and would weaken the democratic system and values in the country and all democratic forces in the country should unite to safe guards the democracy in the country which is in danger today.
Prominent among those who participated in the protest march include Raman Bhalla, Tara Chand, Mula Ram, Prakash Sharma, R.S. Chib, Kanta Bhan, Balwan Singh, Ravinder Sharma, Rajnish Sharma, Th.Manmohan Singh, Ch. Shah Nawaz, Vikram Malhotra, Hari Singh Chib, Ashok Sharma, Shiv Dev Singh, Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Krishan Bhagat, Naresh Gupta, Subash Gupta, Balbir Singh, Ashok Dogra, Mohinder Singh Parihar, Farooq Katoch, Ch. Abdul Ghani, Indu Pawar, Udhey Chib, Rajesh Sadotra, Raqeeq Khan, Suresh Dogra, Gurdarshan Singh, Pranav Shagotra, Pawan Raina, Neeraj Gupta, Thomas Khokhar, Narinder Sharma, Shashi Sharma, M.K. Bhardwaj, Kulvir Pathania, Subash Bhagat, Advocate Bhavishya Sudan, Praveen Sarwar Khan, Rajveer Singh, H.L. Abrol, Ch. Sukhdev Singh, Ramesh Motton, Corporators – Ch. Dwarka, Kamal Singh, Gourav Chopra, Rajinder Singh, Pritam Singh, Bhanu Mahajan, Ritu Choudhary and Sobat Ali, Harvinder Singh Merhta, Iqbal Dar, Satish Sharma, Lala Devi Dass, Kapil Singh, Narinder Gupta, Nassir Masih, Sanjeev Panda, J.L. Koul, Karan Bhagat, Mohan Choudhary, Ch. Masood, Kramat Malik, Zahid Malik, Santosh Majotra, Sahil Sharma, Rajni Sharma, Jyoti Vaid, Dr. R.K. Khajuria, B.B. Gupta, Madan Malagar, Ram Prakash Magotra, P.S. Chouhan, Vinay Sharma and others.
