Saturday, 7 January 2017

Congress an instrument of service to the people: Saroori


Major setback to PDP-BJP parties in Kahara; Zulfiqar Ali Wani, Suresh Kumar and four dozen PDP, BJP workers joined Congress

Distributed LPG connections under PMUY at Bhatyas Bhalessa; addressed party workers meet at Bathri, Kahara areas

BHALESSA, JANUARY 07: - A senior PDP leader and a star campaigner for PDP in 2014 Assembly elections, Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Wani of Kahara Bhalessa joined Congress party along with his 50 senior associates and reposed his faith in the policies and programmes of the party. “Congress is the only party that can guarantee single entity of Jammu and Kashmir and steer the state to peace, progress and prosperity”, Mr Zulfiqar said.

The joining took place at a simple function here in presence of Congress party state Vice Chief Ghulam Mohammad Saroori here.

Those who joined are Senior PDP leader Zulfiqar Ali, Senior BJP leader from Bhatyas Suresh Kumar, Abdul Qayoom Mir, Mohd Shafi Bhat, Atta Mohd, Mohd Hussain, Mohd Hanief Parray, Mohd Sharief Parray, Abid Hussain Wani, Ghulam Mohd Mir, Mohd Rafique, Aashish Kumar, Shokat Ali, Hussain Wani, Iftikhar Ali, Nafees Ahmed, Anees Rasool, Irshad Ahmed, Rehmatullah Bhat, Irfan Ahmed, Chowdhary Ishaq Ahmed, Nazir Ahmed, Abdul Qayoom, Fareed Ahmed, Abdul Wahid, Javed Iqbal, Farooq Ahmed, Mohd Rafique Butt along with their supporters today joined Congress.

Welcoming Mr Zulfiqar and his associates in the party fold, Mr. Saroori expressed the hope that Zulfiqar Ali, others and their supporters would strengthen Congress and work for holistic development of Kahara area and economic welfare of the people. Mr. Saroori described Congress as a mass movement which has stood for the just cause of people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh during most testing times. He said joining of public-spirited activists will strengthen the party at grass root level and help in meeting challenges confronted to the state resolutely.

The senior party leaders congratulated Mr Zulfiqar, Mr Suresh, their associates and hoped this will give a new momentum to the activities at grass-root level in Kahara Bhalessa and adjoining areas. "We welcome him in the party. It is a big day for party in Kahara area that several senior PDP, BJP leaders have joined Congress," President block congress committee Kahara Ghulam Haider Wani and Senior Congress leader Haji Ghulam Mohammad said.

Mr. Saroori also chaired party workers meet in another impressive function held at Bhatyas, Bathri and Kahara areas, he exhorted the party workers to defeat the nefarious designs of PDP BJP and help people in redressal of their grievances. He said that Congress is an instrument of service to the people and will continue to work for betterment and well being of the people. Mr. Saroori urged the cadre to intensify further the mass contact programme and highlight problems faced to the people at appropriate forums and seek redressal.

Earlier MLA Inderwal, G. M Saroori also distributed over 200 LPG connections among the female beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in a function held here at Batyas and Bathri areas of Bhalessa.

The MLA Inderwal while addressing the gathering said that use of LPG in households will help protect the health of the women and reduce the serious health hazards associated with cooking based on fossil fuel, reduce the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuel and prevent young children from significant number of acute respiratory illnesses caused due to indoor air pollution by burning the fossil fuel.

Mr. Saroori also listed out various social elevation schemes launched in the area and urged the people to avail the benefits of these schemes. He stressed upon people to help disseminate information about these welfare programmes among others so that no household remains devoid of the benefits from these welfare schemes.

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