Jammu, Aug 21:- Senior J&K PCC leaders have welcomed the joint statement of 19 opposition parties of the country demanding restoration of full statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and holding of early assembly election in a free and fair manner.
Welcoming the joint statement of the 19 opposition parties meeting hosted by Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi yesterday, fully supporting the demand of the people of Jammu and Kashmir for restoration of full statehood and early assembly elections, JK PCC leaders have expressed gratitude to the leadership of all 19 opposition parties for extending full support to the justified demands of people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Senior Congress leaders hailed the initiative of Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi and other participants for sending a strong message to the Centre Govt. to concede the most genuine and rightful demand of people of J&K, without further delay, besides holding early assembly elections, in a free and fair manner, to restore democracy in Jammu and Kashmir at the earliest. The congress party and all other opposition parties have been realizing the pain and sufferings of the people of Jammu and Kashmir who have been deprived of their genuine rights, status, dignity, and identity but the BJP Govt. at the Centre is unnecessarily delaying the restoration of statehood, they said.
The people of Jammu and Kashmir are getting restless now, as the BJP is unsympathetic and unreasonable in not responding to the popular demand of each and every citizen for restoration of statehood, snatched away without any justification in an arbitrary and unilateral manner. They impressed upon the Centre Govt. not to further delay the restoration of full statehood before holding assembly elections, at the earliest, for which the ongoing exercise of delimitation of assembly constituencies should be completed, without delay, in a free, fair, and transparent manner. For the conduct of free & fair assembly elections, it is imperative that the delimitation exercise is completed in a fairest and transparent manner, they said, adding that same be completed at the earliest possible.
The signatories include Vice Presidents, General Secretaries, Secretaries, Frontal Wing heads, and DCC Presidents including Shri Raman Bhalla, Shri Ravinder Sharma, Th. Balwan Singh, Abdul Majid Wani, Shri Yogesh Sawhney, Shah Mohd. Choudhary, Th. Manmohan Singh, Smt. Indu Pawar, Shri Rajnish Sharma, Smt. Suman Bhagat, Smt. Gurbachan Kumari Rana, Th. Shiv Dev Singh, Th. Balbir Singh, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Uday Bhanu Chib (JKPYC), Shiv Kumar Sharma (INTUC), Sunny Parihar (NSUI), S. Gurdarshan Singh, Sanjeev Panda, S. Gaja Singh, Suresh Dogra, Nisar Ahmed (IGP Retd.), Dr. Karan Bhagat, Rajveer Singh, and others.