Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, Sept, 22
BJP National Vice-President Shyam Jaju, Union Minister of State PMO Dr. Jitendra Singh and Union Minister of State for Finance Anurag thakur addressed massively attended massively attended public rally organized on the eve of 125th birthday of Maharaja Hari Singhji at Maharaja Hari Singh Park, Jammu.
BJP State President Ravinder Raina, State Vice-Presidents Pawan Khajuria, Kr. Rajeev Charak, BJP State Vice-President & President Rajput Sabha Th. Narayan Singh, MLC Ashok Khajuria, former Ministers Dr. Devinder Kumar Manyal, Shyam Choudhary, Priya Sethi, Mahamandleshwar Rameshwar Das Maharaj, Bar Association Jammu President & BJP State Spokesperson Adv. Abhinav Sharma, former MLAs Rajesh Gupta, Dr. Krishan, Rajiv Sharma, Mahila Morcha State President Rajni Sethi, MP (Lok Sabha) Jugal Kishore Sharma, MP (Rajya Sabha) Shamsher Singh Manhas, Mayor JMC Chander Mohan Gupta, Dy. Mayor Adv. Purnima Sharma, H. S. Pammi, MLC Ramesh Arora, Munish Sharma, state BJP leaders, presidents and representatives of various social organizations representing Civil Society of Jammu and thousands of BJP activists along with heavy number of members of Civil Society participated in the event.
Rally was organized by the Jan-Jagran Abhiyaan committee of BJP alongwith Jammu Bar Association and Civil Societies, Jammu.
After giving floral tributes to the statue of Maharaja Hari Singh ji, Speakers focussed upon the contributions of Maharaja and on ill effects of Articles 370 and 35(a) on the state economy, culture and development at Maharaja Hari Singh Park, Near Exhibition Ground, Jammu.
Shyam Jaju, in his address, said that the decision to abrogate Articles 370 &35(a) was made a strong commitment soon after the formation of government at the Centre. He said that the whole Nation is thankful to Maharaja Hari Singh ji for his contributions to the society and for acceding to the Union of India. He remembered the time, when Modi ji was forced to hoist Tricolour at Lal Chowk with heavy restrictions, but today, with the virtue of Modi ji’s efforts, we have given befitting tributes to the sacrifice of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee ji. He said that the topic of discussion for today on everybody’s mouth is how to take back PoJK and Aksai Chin, which has been stressfully said by BJP National President & Union home Minister Amit Shah. He said that this feast has been achieved today, with a long history of sacrifices made by three generations, which has laid strong foundation for a bold decision. He said that this strong foundation has made us bold enough to take through the decision even after we were not enjoying majority in Rajya Sabha. He said that this inspiration has enabled us to fulfill the dreams of Dr. Mookherjee, Dr. Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, Atal ji and other great personalities.
Anurag Thakur, in his address, said that this is the day, he feels that his dream has come true. He said that he was here during the 2011 Tiranga Yatra, when 1 lakh BJYM activists were stopped at Lakhanpur bridge from hoisting the Tricolour in the state and the activists braved to swim and cross cold river waters in January to reach their destination.
He said that people of the state were prevented for 70 years to take benefits of their rights. He said that abrogation of Articles 370 & 35 (a) has given the rights to everybody especially women, Refugees, Harijans, Paharis and every section who were denied even basic rights for 7 decades. He said that this step is taken for the faith of 130 Crore people on Tiranga, which was challenged on every occasion by 3 families for 3 generations.
He also remembered the contributions of late National leaders Arun Jaitley ji, Sushma Swaraj ji and Anant Kumar ji and regretted that all the three are no more with us today. He said that J&K got funds to the tunes of thousands of Crore rupees but still the State lacked in development, but now the scene is reformed, and the region will witness unprecedented growth. He said that this is the real tribute to Patel ji who left no effort to unite whole of India except J&K, which was given to Pt. Nehru on his request. He said that there is chaos in Pakistan after abrogation of Articles 370 & 35(a) as the gates are now open for PoJK. He also talked about the 10% decrease in Corporate tax of 34% and particularly talked about only 15% tax on new Industries. He said that business fraternity from Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh requested for concessions in Tourism sector which has been addressed to. With merger of Banks, it will be made sure the accessibility of banking facility to everyone within 5 kms. He also asked everybody to counter the maligned campaign by vested interests on the issue by having knowledge of facts.
Dr. Jitendra Singh, in his address, said that Sheikh Abdullah did a weighty mistake by arresting a patriotic man from Bengal, who was on a mission for Unified India.
He said that whole Nation was pained to hear the loss of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mokherjee after 44 days of jail where he was very ill-treated. Our 3 generations have maintained the promise to take his mission forward. He related the event to the ill treatment of Gandhi ji by British Ticket Checker which gave birth to a great freedom movement in India. And in the similar way, we got our mission completed in August 2019 giving real tributes to Mokherjee ji. He said that Pt. Prem Nath Dogra was offered Ministerial birth in the J&K Cabinet, but he refused as he could not think of using 2 flags on his vehicle. He said that today is the result of sacrifices by our 3 generations. He said that the decision to abrogate Articles 370 & 35(a) has nothing to do with Hindu-Muslim but it is for betterment of common masses.
He said that Home Minister Amit Shah is very liberal towards house arrested leaders in J&K providing them Hollywood movies, gym facilities & brown breads to eat, as we remember also the times when our leaders were thrown way to far off places & abused and added that these are the “House Guests & not House Arrests”. He said that these valley politicians have exploited public machinery after getting only 10% votes. He aired his voice for the commitment to make status of PoJK in the state as it was when the Maharaja handed it over to the Union of India.
He also remembered the time when no Maharaja’s close person was there, when on 10th of June 1949, he was sent into exile. He also made a reference to the time of death of Maharaja on 26th of April 1961 residents of this state visited Kothi of Pt. Prem Nath Dogra as there was no other place to mourn Maharaja’s loss and said that those people have absolute no right to speak now.
Ravinder Raina, in his address alleged that the biggest fraud was gifted to the people of Jammu & Kashmir in the form of Articles 370& 35(a) after the accession of J&K was completed, by those at the helm of affairs as they conspired to treat the state as their personal property. He said that it was a well hatched plot to keep us divided from the rest of India and rule the state as its Interim Administrators. He said that in the Round Table Conference of 1932, Maharaja made this pretty clear that we wish to be part of India free from British and today, we achieved this long-aspired goal under the strong leadership of PM Modi.
He said that the valley-based politicians threatened us and dared us, but did it what was best in the best interests of the Nation, state and society.
He said that we still remember the times, when, we were not allowed to hoist Tricolour freely here, but now the time has changed, thanks to the Modi government and added that many more great decisions will follow when we will have BJP’s Chief Minister in the state.
MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, Th. Narayan Singh and Adv. Abhinav Sharma also addressed the rally.
