Jammu Tawi, July 6: On the occasion of birth anniversary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder President Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherji, BJP organized number of programmes across the state, wherein party leaders, ministers, MLAs, MLCs visited different districts to lead the local activists to pay tributes.
In two separate programs held at Trikuta Nagar and Kachi Chawni offices, BJP State President & MLA Sat Sharma (C.A), Speaker Assembly Kavinder Gupta, State General Secretary (Org.) Ashok Kaul, MLA Rajesh Gupta, MLCs Ashok Khajuria and Ramesh Arora (Adv.), District Presidents Ayodhya Gupta and Baldev Singh Billawaria and Mahila Morcha State President Purnima Sharma, garlanded and laid wreaths at the statue of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee.
Kavinder Gupta said that the youth in particular should take pledge to adopt the principles and ideology of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee and work towards achieving his mission.
MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, while paying tributes at Samba, said that Dr. Mookherjee was an institution in himself which represented a visionary leader, a great patriot and good human being, who never compromised on principles.
Ashok Kaul spoke in length on various aspects of the life of Dr. Mookherjee and said that it was on the call of Pt. Premnath Dogra that Dr. Mookherjee took the initiative to protest permit system and provision of separate symbols in J&K.
Rajesh Gupta said that today people run after ministries but Dr. Mookherjee left his chair of Union Minister for the cause of the nation. It shows his concern and pain for motherland. Similarly, Industries & Commerce Minister CP Ganga joined party activists to pay tributes at Poonch.PHE Minister Sham Choudhary paid tributes, along with local activists in a programme at Kathua.Forest & Environment Minister Ch. Lal Singh along with State General Secretary Pawan Khajuria paid his tributes at Udhampur.
