Ramban, May 15: - The Congress membership was launched in district Ramban in a function presided by Vice President JKPCC, Mr. G. M. Saroori and attended by General Secretary JKPCC Yogesh Sawhney, MLA Banihal Vikar Rasool Wani, MLC Sham Lal Bhagat, Secretary PCC Ashok Kumar-(Ex MLA), Secretary PCC Imtiyaz Ahmed Khanday, President DCC Ramban Arun Singh Raju, Working DCC President Farooq Ahmed Katoch other senior leaders of the party, Office bearers, Youth Congress, NSUI besides large number of Congressmen attended the membership drive.
Mocking at BJP leaders for rushing to bus stations and railway stations to enroll new members, Congress Vice President said while addressing a party function here at Ramban and said quality and not quantity matters while signing on new members for the party.
Saroori observed that his party's membership drive always focused on booth-level registrations instead of the way in which BJP leaders in the state set about adding new members. "For us (Congress leaders) quality matters, unlike their (BJP leaders) focus on quantity," he added.
According to him, for any political organization, numbers at each polling booth matters, not those at bus-stations or railway stations though at such places one could reach out to many people at once. "We need to have our people in booths across the state instead of searching them in such places where BJP leaders carried out their membership campaign," Saroori added.
Saroori also asked state government not to shift the proposed National Institute of Medicinal Plants (NIMP) from Bhaderwah in district Doda. He said that G. N. Azad had sanctioned NIMP for Chenab Valley and it should be set up in Bhaderwah itself as the area is rich in herbal wealth and more than 40 per cent of forest wealth of J&K is found in the Chenab valley. In view of its close proximity to rich wealth of medicinal and herbal plants and pristine scenic beauty, Bhaderwah remains an ideal place for the setting up of NIMP,” Saroori said.
He warned the PDP-BJP that if the 100-crore dream project of Ghulam Nabi Azad will be shifted all the Congress leaders along with lakhs of people will come on street and will start agitate.
While addressing Yogesh Sawhney, Vikar Rasool, Sham Lal Bhagat and Ashok Kumar lambast at coalition government for failing on every front in the state and said Chief Minister J&K Mufti Mohammad Sayeed may be considered as a shrewd politician of the state, but his statement is unwanted and has hurt the people.
They said that special emphasis now should be on enrolling new members into the party apart from ensuring renewal of membership by the present members of the party and have expressed gratitude to the party cadres who have been strengthening the philosophy and ideology of the party.
Others who spokes including Imtiyaz Ahmed Khandey, Ilyaz Amed, Budhi Singh, Bushan Pandit, Sardar Jamash Singh, Farooq Katoch, Arun Singh Raju, Tariq Saleem, Haji Mohammad Yusuf, Issaq Khandey, Choudhary Farooq, Amir Salaria and other others leaders said that membership drive should be conducted at the grass root level in all the Tehsils, Block and Panchayats. They have also alleged that BJP-PDP Govt has failed on all fronts and uncertainty and disappointment among the people of State is increasing day by day.
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