Soni to meet party cadres in groups, to give feedback to Sonia on Tuesday
Srinagar: The Congress today held a crucial meetings of its Senior Functionaries in the state including Ministers, Legislators, , Vice Presidents, General Secretaries, District Presidents and frontal organizations that started here at SKICC Srinagar to devise strategy for the forthcoming Assembly election in the State.
Prof Saiffudin Soz, PCC president told KNS that the meeting discussed a long list of issues pertaining to the party and its activities on ground in the state. “There was a consensus that integrity of Jammu and Kashmir can be best promoted by the Congress that has its presence in all the three regions of the state,” Soz told KNS.
He said that party leaders also put forth their feed back before Ms Ambika Soni the AICC general secretary and in charge Jammu and Kashmir affairs and she has decided to hold meetings with the party cadres in groups and at an individual level also. Ms Soni was chief Guest while Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha. Ghulam Nabi Azad also attended the meeting, which was presided over by Prof. Saifuddin Soz President JK PCC.
At the start of the meeting, a two minute silence was observed to pay tributes to the Veteran Congress Leader and Former PCC President Ch. Mohammad Aslam, who expired few days back.
AICC General Secretary Ambika Soni in her brief address referred to the challenges before the party in the State and at the National level and the circumstances which led to the defeat of the Party in the recent Lok Sabha Elections. She gave a message of Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi to the Party cadres, about the role and responsibility of the Congress Party in the Country especially in this sensitive State to maintain the Secular fabric , unity and integrity of the Nation. She cautioned the Party men about the danger posed by the communal and divisive forces and asked them to gear up for the forth-coming Assembly election to unitedly defeat the designs of such forces. She asked them to share their view about the political situation in the State to devise an effective strategy for strengthening the Congress Party. The leaders from all three regions and Districts would hold an interaction with Soni and give their feed back till tomorrow, when she would fly back to report to the Party High Command.
Earlier JK PCC Chief Prof. Saifuddin Soz welcomed the AICC General Secretary Ambika Soni to the meeting and explained the participants about the importance of this interaction. He asked Party leaders to give their valuable suggestions to further strengthen the Party in three regions to achieve success in the coming elections.
. Ghulam Nabi Azad Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha also briefly addressed the meeting and felt the need to gear up the cadres at the grass root level and mentioned the reasons for the defeat. He felt the need to close the ranks to expose the wrong policies of some other parties and educate the masses about false-hood of the BJP.
The meeting interacted various issues of three regions of the State and later the leaders were having meeting separately also with Soni which process would continue till late night and tomorrow also before her return.