| After 27 days, J&K Congress welcomes new entrants | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 3: The J&K unit of Congress took as many as 27 days to accord reception and welcome to new entrants in the party.
Highly placed sources in the Congress decision to accord reception to new entrants was taken following the direction of the party high command because local leaders were adopting delay tactics to formally accord reception to those who recently joined the party.
The Early Times in its August 31 edition reported that the incumbent leadership of the J&K Congress appeared to be hesitating to properly accommodate them.
On August 7, over 20 leaders from the Aam Admni Party (AAP) and Ghulam Nabi Azad-led Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) joined the Congress in New Delhi. Among them are four former legislators and a sitting district development council member.
Taranjit Singh Tony, a DDC member from Suchetgarh in the RS Pura sector, Yash Paul Kundal, former MLA from Samba, AAP’s women wing president Namrata Sharma along with hundreds of their supporters resigned from AAP while former MLC Nare h Gupta, former MLA Sopore Haji Abdul Rashid, former MLC Sham Lal Baghat, and several other leaders, who were with Ghulam Nabi Azad DPAD, quit the party and joined the J&K Pradesh Congress Party in presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
As reported earlier, the old guards of the party were not ready to allow these leaders to give space for these new entrants in the party.
According to an official handout issued by the party, a “heroic welcome” was accorded to Yash Pal Kundal, T.S. Tony, Haji Rashid, Naresh Gupta, Sham Lal Bhagat and others by the Congress party at party headquarters.
Vikar Rasool Wani while welcoming them to the Congress party said that AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge accepted the suggestion of the Pradesh Congress Committee in consultation with AICC Incharge J&K Rajni Patil and AICC General Secretary I/C Organization K.C.Venugopal, to admit those who were desirous of joining the mission of Congress party to serve the people of the state and strengthen the unity and integrity of all regions of Jammu and Kashmir. |
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