Saroori addresses mammoth gathering at Thatri, distributes IAY cheques worth 16 lakhs.

Ask cadres to brace up for Lok Sabah and State Assembly polls.

Kishtwar Feb 19: – Senior Congress Leader and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori today asked its party cadres to brace-up for 2014 Lok Sabah and State Assembly polls adding Congress will come to serve the people again in 2014.

“You should keep this passion and sentiment alive because now the time for the test is coming. This is the time you have to make this party strong as 2014 is the election year. First the Parliament elections, then the state assembly elections,” Saroori said while addressing a mammoth gathering at Dak Banglow Thatri. While garnering the people support for the Congress party, Saroori ask the party carders to get united for the welfare of the people of Inderwal District and retreat that Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has no role in dropping him from the list of cabinet minister, the expansion of which took place last month.

“Dropping me from council of minister is the decision jointly taken by the party and not by Azad Sb” added Saroori. He said that in order to make the state prosperous, the state of J & K needs a Chief Minister like Ghulam Nabi Azad to head the state after 2014 state Assembly elections and urged the people to vote Congress party to power. He made a desperate appeal to annoyed party workers to withdraw their resignation submitted by them after party denied Cabinet berth to him. He said that he believes in neat and clean politics and said that he always isolated himself from the politics over dead.

Saroori also distributed IAY cheques worth 16 lakhs among the beneficiaries. He highlighted the developmental work done by him as MLA as well as R&B Minister for Doda District. He said that Government is committed to provide improved basic facilities to the people in all the three regions of the State. He asked the people to maintain close coordination with the Government for ensuring overall development. Maintaining that Government has formulated a comprehensive plan for the development of hilly areas, MLA said that these areas will receive focused attention during the remaining period of the coalition Government.

He directed the officers to enhance the field visits to address people’s problems on priority. He also directed officers for making judicious use of funds and ensuring quality of work. Asking the Sarpanchs/Panchs to discharge their responsibilities with honesty and utmost care, Saroori maintained that elected representatives have greater responsibilities and they must work hard to fulfill the expectations of the people. He said Government has already taken measures to empower them and efforts are on to restore powers to the panchayats as per the Central Panchayati Raj Act after bringing necessary amendment in the State Act.

Saroori asked officers to discharge their duties with extra zeal and dedication and take care of Government assets for which they are the custodians. He said ground level functionaries have equal responsibilities, adding that without their active involvement the functioning of various schemes is not possible.

Senior Congress Leader including Bashir Ahmed Sirwal, Sarfraz Khan, Mansoor Ahmed, Farooq Ahmed, Asgar Khangi, Mohammad Iqbal Keen, Abdul Razzaq, Chaman Lal, Khalid Hussain, Iqbal Teli , Ghulam Qadir Sheikh, Haji Ghulam Mohammad Mir, Hajji Abdul Latief, Noor Mahi Chowdhary, Mohammad Ramzan, Chowdhary Abdul Karim, Safdar Wani were among the few who were present.

Later on Saroori held a review meeting with officers and directed officers to hold public darbar and mitigate the general public problems.