Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Thursday paid tributes to party stalwarts Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg and Khwaja Ghulam Mohiuddin Shah on their death anniversaries at party headquarters, Nawa e Subah in Srinagar.
Addressing a small gathering of few party functionaries and office bearers to commemorate the 38th and 16th death anniversaries of the party stalwarts, party’s Additional General Secretary Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamal paid glowing tributes to the duo for their untiring efforts towards guarding the interests of J&K and realizing the objectives of Naya Kashmir.
Among others Party’s Provincial Vice President Muhammad Syed Akhoon, Provincial Secretary Showkat Ahmad Mir, District President Srinagar Peer Afaq Ahmad, YNC Vice President Kashmir Ahsan Pardesi, Syed Tauqeer Shah, GN Bhat were also present on the occasion.
Dr Kamal while extolling the role played by the party veterans in achieving the pro peasant objectives said, “Mirza Muhammad Afzal Beg sahib and GM Shah Sahib played a crucial role in the realization of progressive and pro poor objectives of our party. Their association with the National Conference and Sher e Kashmir was underlined with unquestionable loyalty. The duo played a pioneering and crucial role while serving the party and the people of J&K in various capacities. Both the leaders have left a trail for the coming generations to tread upon. The contribution of both the party veterans in scripting a glorious era of service and sacrifice would go down in history as an illustrious example of leadership and statesmanship. Both of them grew in the heroic mould of Sher e Kashmir and had unflinching faith in the democratic and secular values. Our party firmly stands on the bedrock of service and sacrifice of such great visionaries as late Beg Sahib and Late Shah Sahib. The sheer degree of conviction they had for the ideals of Sher e Kashmir is worth imitating by those who want to carve a niche for themselves in politics. I pay my earnest tributes to both of them.”
While reflecting on the ground situation in Kashmir over the past 10 months Dr Kamal said, “New Delhi is not willing to accept ground realities on Jammu and Kashmir. The series of radical, drastic, and unilateral steps taken by New Delhi on 5th of August last year where by the state was demoted, carved and scrapped of the constitutional guarantees has belied New Delhi’s commitments to the people of J&K.

KR Desk