 Early times Report
Jammu, Jan 11: Emotional tributes were paid to the martyrs of 1953 Praja Parishad agitation by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and prominent Civil Society members in an event organized at Hirangar. BJP State President Ravinder Raina, party State General Secretary (Org.) Ashok Koul along with Former Dy. Chief Minister Dr. Nirmal Singh, party State General Secretary Yudhvir Sethi, former Cabinet Minister Dr. D. K. Manyal, former MLAs Kuldeep Raj, Rajeev Jasrotia and other senior party leaders addressed the masses on the occasion.
On the day of 11 January, during the 1953 agitation for the "Ek Nishan, Ek Vidhan, Ek Pradhan", martyrs Bheekam Singh and Bihari Lal laid down their lives for the greater good of the J&K region. Ravinder Raina, while paying emotional tributes to the martyrs, said that the 1953 agitation under the slogan of Ek Vidhan, Ek Nishan, Ek Pradhan was first such historic agitation which brought all the patriotic people under one umbrella and many of them got bullets for raising tricolor, which was made a crime in those days by the then ruling Congress party and its allies. With the sacrifices of our brethrens in Hiranagar, Ramban, Jourian, Akhnoor and other areas, separate post of Prime Minister was abolished and now with the sincere efforts of BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it has become possible today to truly unite the spirit of Jammu & Kashmir with the rest of India by achieving the aim of "One Constitution" throughout the Nation, he stressed. |
