KISHTWAR, DECEMBER 19: - Congress workers held protest rally on Saturday, accusing the BJP-led Centre of pursuing politics of "vendetta" in the National Herald case to "malign" the image of the party and its top leaders.
A large number of Congress workers and supporters led by JKPCC Vice President and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori assembled at Dak Banglow from where they started march towards Deputy Commissioner's office and blocked the main road for several hours in Kishtwar. The Congress leaders were also wearing the black band on their head and arm in protest against the National Herald case here.
They raised slogans like "Tanashahi nahi chalegi" (dictatorship will not be tolerated)" and "Badle ke rajnathi nahi chalegi (politics of revenge) besides raised slogans in support of their leaders.
Saroori, while addressing the party workers, said National Herald case was a pure "political vendetta", and the Congress workers will not tolerate this "political atrocity" and that’s why they came on street against it.
"We will not allow BJP to pursue political vendetta. Series of such protests are held today throughout the country because the people stand by the Congress as they know whatever BJP is doing is political vendetta," said Saroori.
Executive Member JKPCC Ghulam Haider Sheikh in his speech said that "revenge politics" was being pursued by the BJP after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister. "As soon as Narendra Modi became PM, they have targeted Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi. We are protesting against this vendetta politics," Sheikh said.
Later a Congress workers meeting was also held here at Saroori’s residence Kishtwar in which large number of workers from different parts of district Kishtwar participates. Speaking on the occasion Saroori said that present PDP-BJP coalition regime has failed to connect itself with the people of the State. He highlighted achievements of the Congress regime and regretted that the present dispensation has failed carry forward the agenda of peace and development which was aggressively pursued by its predecessor.
Congress leaders from Kishtwar including Mohd Iqbal Keen, Mushtaq Ahmed Hap, Mahinder Singh Parihar, Piyaray Lal Shan and others also spoke on the occasion.
Prominent among those Haji Ghulam Qadir Sheikh, Altaf Hussain Malik, Chowdhary Issaq, Chowdhary Misroo, Santosh Kumar, Piyaray Lal Sharma, Ravi Shan, Noor Hussain, Satish Kumar, Irshad Ahmed, Zakir Hussain, Jaffer Hussain, Abdul Wahid Saroori, Randeep Bhandari, Firdous Mingnoo, Suman Pratab Singh, Shaik Abrar, Asgar Khangi, Abdul Kabeer Keen, Ronak Singh, Bidya Lal Sharma, Farooq Ahmed Drought, Mohd Sultan, Akhtar Hussain Tatani, Shamas Din Butt, Abdul Qayoom Gagroo, Rehman Special, Abdul Rashid, Ghulam Nabi, Mohd Rafi Sheikh, Noor Hussain, Sharwan Singh, Captain Jagdish Kumar, Bashir Ahmed Sheikh, Rakesh Thakur, Abdul Latief, Nath Ram, Shahnawaz Hussain, Mohd Saleem, Krishan Lal, Nadeem Ahmed, Fareed Ahmed, Surjeet Badyal, Shanker Wazir and Congress workers in large were present.
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