Jammu, January 24 (Scoop News) – Ridiculing the divisive politics propagated by BJP and other parties in the State to wedge apart the society in the name of region, religion and other grounds, Senior Congress Leader, Legislator and Former Minister, Abdul Gani Vakil said the preachers of this kind of politics can never be termed as friends of people or the country. “Their party interest is dearer to them than the national interest”, Vakil said and advised them to desist from playing politics on national issues like flag hoisting.
Vakil was addressing a party worker’s convention at Gandhi Nagar Jammu today.
“Instead of joining hands with the government to blunt the anti-national forces and enemies of the country, they are creating opportunities for anti-national forces to utilize law and order situations being created by these parties for furthering their designs”,Vakil said and gave a clarion call to general people and the nationalist forces to foil the designs of vested interests bent upon to disturb the peace in the State and derail the dialogue process. “BJP is inadvertently playing in the hands of enemies of the country and supplementing the forces inclined to keep the situation inJammu and Kashmir boiling”, he said and asked the party to read between the lines and behave like a responsible mainstream party.
Urging all stake holders in peace and development of Jammu and Kashmir to exhibit highest degree of response and responsibility to the prevailing situation in the State, Vakil has underscored the importance of contributing positively in the success of ongoing dialogue between various shades of opinion and the Interlocutors.
“Aftermath of five months of law and order situation and 20 years of enemy’s attempt to keep Jammu and Kashmir politically volatile by encouraging gun culture and militancy, should be eye-opener for every nationalist to work for peace cultivation in the State”, he said adding that there is no wisdom in playing politics and games for party interest in the State at present crucial juncture when serious efforts are on to bring on board all shades of opinion through a dialogue process.
Vakil said that welfare of people of Jammu and Kashmir and solidarity between various regions is the benchmark of Indian National Congress’s politico-development policy and the party is working in the direction of restoring permanent peace in the State besides ensuring equitable development of all regions and all sections of the society.
The Former Minister said that the efforts of the coalition government in the State to address unemployment crisis effectively needed to be supplemented by all political parties instead of creating law and order situations telling upon badly on employment generation strategy and implementation of works programme.
Besides others who addressed the convention include Ex. MP Shri Janak Raj Gupta, Ex. Ministers Shri Jugal Kishore, Chowdhary Gharu Ram, Mohammad Sharief Niyaz, Abdul Majid Wani, MLC’s Naresh Gupta, Haji Ali Mohammad Bhat, General Secretaries J&K PCC Shri Vinod Sharma, Shri Ashok Sharma, Shri Maheshwar Singh Advocate.