MT News Service
Jammu, December 25:
On the occasion of the birthday of former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jammu and Kashmir BJP organised ‘Good Governance Day’ (Sushasan Divas) programmes in 128 Mandals across the UT, wherein the party senior leaders led the party activists in remembering Atal ji and his splendid contribution in progress and prosperity of the country. Later, they joined their party colleagues to listen & watch live telecast of the address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, related to transfer of new instalment of rupees 18000 crores in the bank account of 9 crore farmers under ‘PM Kissan Samman Nidhi’.
At party office, Party President Ravinder Raina, along with former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta and former MLA R.S. Pathania, paid tributes to the tallest and revered leader of BJP.
While paying tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayes, Ravinder Raina, said that this great leader always worked for Ek Bharat Shresht Bharat and national interests were on his top priorities. Be it Pokhran Nuclear Test to display his resolve to make India a strong nation or Kargil War, his strong leadership made Pakistan bite dust.
Similarly, he was firm in dealing with militancy and separatism. Even in opposition, Atal ji brought honour and respect for the nation at world fora on different occasions, Raina added.
Ashok Koul, in his floral tributes, described Atal ji as an institution in himself, who inspired the nationalist people to treat nation as first and self at last.
He said that Atal ji, among other top leaders, had sown a small sapling of BJP, which has now grown into a big tree and motivating the people to strengthen its roots in every length and breadth of the country and DDC results in Kashmir is the recent example.
At R.S.Pura, Ravinder Raina, alongwith BJP Vice president Anuradha Charak, Kissan Morcha President Omi Khajuria and former MLC Ramesh Arora, remembered Atal ji.
Union MoS Dr. Jitendra Singh, former Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Nirmal Singh, Vice President Yudhvir Sethi, party leaders Vijay Sharma and Rashpal Verma paid tributes to Atal ji in different Mandals of Kathua district.
Lok Sabha MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, Rajya Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Manhas and others took part in programmes in Akhnoor district.
Party General Secretary (organisation) Ashok Koul, General Secretary Dr. Davinder Manyal, former Minister Chander Prakash Ganga, Mahila Morcha President Sanjita Dogra, paid tributes in programmes in Samba district.
Party General Secretary Sunil Sharma participated in similar programmes in Kishtwar.
Former Minister Sat Sharma and Munish Sharma led party activists in Jammu West programme to pay tributes, former Minister Ajay Nanda and Kuldeep Raj Dubey in Reasi, Pardeep Sharma and Sunil Gupta in Poonch and Vikram Randhawa chaired similar programmes in Jammu district to pay tributes.
Twenty programmes in Basohli, fourteen in Nowshera-Sunderbani district, nine each in Ramban and Udhampur, five programmes each in R. S. Pura and Kathua districts, eight programmes each in Akhnoor, Kishtwar and Doda districts, ten in Samba, eleven in Rajouri, seven in Jammu Rural, six in Reasi district, three programmes in Kashmir Displaced district and Jammu district, one each in Jammu West and Poonch districts were organised to celebrate the day.
In all these programmes, the District Presidents and Mandal Presidents, along with their teams also participated.
