JAMMU, May 27: The 62nd death anniversary of first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was observed here on Wednesday in a function at Rajiv Bhawan, JKPCC HQ. Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu.
Every party worker remembered the sacrifices of Pt. Nahru and took pledge to follow the path shown by him to work for the welfare of the society and to fight with the communal forces and to 4.maintain brotherhood.
The function was presided over by PCC Working President & Former Minister Raman Bhalla which was attended by, DCC President Jammu Urban & Former Minister Yogesh Sawhney, EX-MLC & Incharge PCC HQ Ved Mahajan, Th. Manmohan Singh, Varinder Manhas, Gurdarshan Singh, Vijay Sharma (Seva Dal), Kapil Singh, Neeraj Gupta, Sanjeev Panda, Rajesh Sharma, Rajveer Singh, Bhavishya Sudan, Michael Wazir, Babbal Gupta, Kewal Krishan Jogi, Rakesh Sharma, Latish Sharma, Ram Magotra, Prabhu Mehra, Rajkumar Sodi , Atul Sharma, Mangal Bral¸Vijayant Pathania, Sohit Sharma, Prem Sharma, Sohil Kumar, Ajay Kumar, Sumit Gandhi, Sahil Shavotra and others.
Paying floral tributes, Raman Bhalla recalled the great contributions of Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru in the freedom struggle and in laying the foundations of free India as a strong democratic, social, secular and progressive nation, for which he is rightly known as the architect of modern India.
He denounced attempts by the ruling party and it’s sister concerns to distort the historical facts about the role played by the great stalwart in the freedom struggle and in the building of modern India especially his historical contributions, in bringing Jammu and Kashmir ,into the Indian fold at the crucial times.
Bhalla lauded the visionary role played by Pt Nehru in defeating the designs of two nation theory by Jinnah over Kashmir. It was his far- sightedness and his great efforts which ultimately succeeded in lending the popular support in Jammu and Kashmir towards its accession with India by Maharaja Hari Șingh on 26th Oct, 1947.
He said that in recent times Nehru’s legacy has been under attack from his detractors, who are the ideological descendants of the Non- participants in the freedom struggle. It is time that the congressmen and all those who are aware of the great contributions of Pt. Nehru in the freedom struggle and as a leader of this nation, come together to counter those forces, who are trying to distort history, so that the generation to come are not misinformed and misguided regarding the core values that he represented and stood for.
Yogesh Sawhney described Pt. Nehru as the tallest leader of all times, whose contribution in the freedom struggle and as first prime minister can never be forgotten. He said that contribution of Pt. Nehru to bring the state of J&K to the fold of Indian nation can’t be forgotten and there is need to expose the distortions of history being made by certain forces for vested political interests.
He said that the building of a democratic, social and political system was Pt. Nehru’s principal objectives. For him political democracy was a means of solving social problems. He laid the foundation of Panchayati Raj and Community development programmes because he believed that first objective of the state was social welfare and empowerment of the people. He started planning system paving way to growth of public sector with massive investment in basic and heavy industries and resolved into industrialization of the country.