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‘Kashmiriyat’ depends on NC’s success: Dr. Farooq
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Thursday, 27 March 2014
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Addresses party Women’s Wing in Srinagar
Srinagar: National Conference
president, Dr. Farooq Abdullah said that women have always played a vital and
important role in the history of Kashmir ever since they were led towards
social, economic and political empowerment by Madar-e-Meharbaan Begum Sheikh
Mohammad Abdullah.
According to a statement issued to KNS, while speaking at
a well attended women workers’ meeting organized at NC Headquarters at
Nawa-e-Subh Complex in Srinagar by the District Srinagar NC Women’s Wing, Dr.
Farooq said that history is a witness to the fact that National Conference has
always given utmost respect, dignity and a sense of equality to women and made
education accessible to them in the State.
“It is because of the leadership of National Conference,
its vision and policies that women of J&K are today playing a vital role in
the transformation and development of our State. National Conference came into
being to uphold the self-respect and dignity of the people of this State and
has rendered numerous sacrifices for the sentiments and aspirations of the
people.”
Dr. Farooq added that from the very day Sher-e-Kashmir
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah started our movement for the rights and empowerment of
our people, numerous conspiracies were hatched against National Conference and
its leadership to weaken the State and dilute its special status.
“There have been perennial as well as seasonal, covert
and overt foes and detractors of the party who have left no stone unturned to
weaken National Conference so that the representational character and voice of
J&K could be fragmented and fractured. However their nefarious designs have
always been defeated in the past and will always be thwarted by the people of
this State who consider National Conference to be the custodian of their
rights, sentiments and honor – a bond that has stood the test of time.”
Dr. Farooq said that historic decisions and steps taken
by Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and Madar-e-Meharbaan Begum Akbar
Jahan for the upliftment and welfare of women continue to help us scale new
heights even to this day. “National Conference has always played a pivotal role
to open closed doors and empower the women of our State to break the
glass-ceilings of suppression and gender inequality.”
Dr. Farooq said that National Conference prioritized the
dream of women empowerment by incorporating transformational policies in the
Naya Kashmir vision document of National Conference, a historic document that
has been a coherent script for J&K’s well-being, safety and honor. It was
decades ago that National Conference in ‘Naya Kashmir’ spoke in detail about
the empowerment of our womenfolk.
He said that Kashmiriyat has been nurtured by the
sacrifices and blood of National Conference and for Kashmiriyat to survive and
flourish the flag of National Conference will have to stay hoisted in the State
for all times to come. Dr. Farooq impressed on the Women’s Wing workers to
mobilize their cadre with utmost dedication and zeal to ensure that the
candidates put forth by the party in the Parliamentary elections emerge
victorious with huge margins as has been proven at all junctures in the past.
Those who spoke on the occasion included NC Provincial
President Nasir Aslam Wani, MLA Batamaloo Irfan Shah and Provincial President
NC Women’s Wing and MLA Haba Kadal Shameema Firdous. Provincial Secretary NC
Women’s Wing Sabiya Qadri and District President Srinagar of NC Women’s Wing
Khalida Ji were also present on the occasion.
Meanwhile, Party President Dr. Farooq, Working President
and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, General Secretary Sheikh Nazir Ahmed
(Advocate), Additional General Secretary Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, NC
Provincial President and MLA Amira Kadal Nasir Aslam Wani, NC District
President and MLA Zadibal Peer Afaq, MLA Batamaloo Irfan Shah and NC Spokesman
Junaid Mattu besides numerous party leaders, colleagues and workers have
expressed grief and sorrow at the demise of NC Block President Amira Kadal,
Khwaja Ghulam Ahmed Malik. NC Provincial President and MLA Amira Kadal Nasir
Aslam Wani participated in the Nimaz-e-Jinaza of the deceased and prayed for
peace to the eternal soul. Wani highlighted the sacrifices of Ghulam Ahmed
Malik and said that his name would be written in golden letters in the glorious
history of National Conference. (KNS)
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