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Leadership in damage control mode: Cong Ganderbal distt president, others withdraw resignation
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 2/20/2013 11:19:43 PM
JAMMU, Feb 20: Congress district president Ganderbal and member J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar and his supporters including Sarpanches/Panches, Block president Mahila Congress and Congress workers, who had resigned in protest against denial of LC nomination to the former (Jabbar), today withdrew their resignations.
The decision to withdraw resignations came after the party leadership as a damage control exercise today sent Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control Sham Lal Sharma as an emissary to cajole the brooding lot.
On the directions of Congress high command, Sham called on the Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar, Sarpanches/Panches, block president Mahila Congress and Congress workers, who had protested for not giving representation to Central Kashmir in the Upper House, which led them to resign from the party on Tuesday, a day after the party announced to give mandate to PCC spokesperson Muzaffar Parray from Kashmir.
The minister held detailed discussion with Ishfaq and other workers on the issue and conveyed the message of Congress high command.
He assured them on behalf of party high command that their genuine aspirations regarding giving representation to their district would be meted out in near future and Jabbar would be accommodated suitably.
Sham appealed them to withdraw their resignations in the interest of party.
Convinced with the message of the party high command, Jabbar and all other Congress workers of district Ganderbal withdrew their resignations and assured that they would continue to work for the betterment of the party.
They reposed full faith in the leadership of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Notably, the state Congress found itself in the soup after its sitting MLC Amin Bhat, a loyalist of Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, too filed nomination on February 18 against Kashmir seat though the officially mandate was announced in favour of Parray, a loyalist to JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz.
Same day i.e., on February 18, Ishfaq too registered his protest against the party decision to accord nomination to Parray and tendered his resignation along with his supporters.