JAMMU, March 6: The 10th Regional Conference of CPI(M) Jammu was held in Sham Prasad Kesar Memorial Hall at Marble Market Jammu, which was attended by hundreds of delegates. The conference was held under the presidium consisting of Banarasi Das,Om Prakash,Sohan Lal and Suman Sharma.CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami and Ghulam Nabi Malik party Secretary addressed the conference.
Condolence resolution to pay tributes to the departed party leaders, activists was moved. The conference condoled the demise of senior party leaders Abdul Hamid Wani and Sham Prasad Kesar.
Inaugurating the delegate session, Ghulam Nabi Malik lambasted the policies pursued by the BJP government and said that farmers, kisans of the country are facing brunt of the ruling dispensation. Business has been shattered in the last years in Kashmir and Jammu. The BJP Government’s August 5 decision broke the backbone of J&K’s economy. Not only people of the Valley, but residents of Jammu and Ladakh regions too are suffering because of the wrong and muscular policies of the BJP government. In Jammu region too, dissatisfaction is visible and voices of dissent are emerging. Though it is a difficult situation, we hope the struggle for the restoration of our legitimate constitutional rights will continue.
After the inaugural address, the delegate session started with Comrade Hari Singh presenting the political report. The report was adopted after through discussion.
Resolutions on price rise, unemployment, agriculture, J&K’s unity, labour laws and education were unanimously adopted in the conference.
While addressing the conference, Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami said that people of the country are dismayed over the performance of the BJP Government as nothing on ground has been changed and people continue to face unemployment, price rise, shortage of essential commodities and power cuts.
Through the scrapping of constitutional rights, downgrading and bifurcating a historic state into two union territories, not only has the BJP government undermined the basic structure of the constitution but the relationship between Jammu & Kashmir and the union itself. And the only way to put it back on track is by immediately restoring the constitutional rights and statehood to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. This unconstitutional and undemocratic decision has created a big political void and deep uncertainty in the region.
The claims being made by the government on investments, development and job avenues in J&K in the wake of new land laws and domicile laws were “a dream and not a reality”.
Today one gets surprised to see the economic condition in Jammu, Kashmir and the status of jobs. Look what has happened to the land rights people had possessed there after a hard struggle. Protection of jobs and land rights ceased to operate which deepened the alienation and sense of insecurity in all the regions. The economy of J&K has virtually collapsed and employment opportunities are shrinking.
New regional committee, comprising of 15 members with Comrade Hari Singh as regional secretary was elected in the conference.
The conference elected 30 delegates for the 12th State Conference to be held in Srinagar on 23 March, 2022.
